Three more new bus routes

Thursday 23rd April 2026 They keep on coming. Thanks to the Government’s three year award of Local Authority Bus Grant (which has hoovered up BSIP and BSOG previously paid to Councils) we are seeing a number of new routes continuing to start up across the country. So far this week I’ve taken a ride on three examples introduced ten days ago on Monday 13th April to see what the chances are of them becoming a permanent feature of the bus scene. All three routes operate on Mondays to Fridays with no weekend service. First up is route 33 in Hertfordshire providing a new four-return-journeys a day link between Hoddesdon and Bishops Stortford. Operated by Central Connect for Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) using a one year old Mercedes Sprinter which I reckon is going to have to work hard to gather up enough passengers to make this new route worthwhile. Dan and the HCC team have so far done a good job introducing enhanced inter-urban links across the county as well as supplementing…