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A road sign directing car drivers to an Oxford park and ride site. It combines the UK standard symbols for a public car park and a public bus service. Park and ride bus services in the United Kingdom are bus services designed to provide intermodal passenger journeys between a private mode of transport and a shared mode bus.
A road sign for park and ride in Oxford, United Kingdom Standard park and ride sign in the United States [1]. A park and ride, also known as incentive parking or a commuter lot, is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system (rapid transit, light rail, or commuter rail ...
In 1990, Oxford Bus Company acquired the High Wycombe operations of the Bee Line, and ran them under the Wycombe Bus brand name. In March 1994, Oxford Bus Company was purchased by the Go-Ahead Group, [11] with the company formally rebranded to The Oxford Bus Company and its city services being given Cityline branding a few months afterwards. [12]
The Botley Road is an important bus and commuter route to Oxford, and Seacourt Park and Ride is located near the junction with the A34. Eastbound, it has a bus lane from the ring road until just before Osney Island, at which point there is a set of bus advancement traffic lights. It has cycle lanes in both directions.
It serves Kidlington, north Oxford and nearby villages. The station forms part of a multi-modal transport interchange node, connecting travellers by bus, cycle, on foot and by car with rail transport. It is also intended to attract park-and-ride traffic from the busy A34, A40 and A44 roads. Services to Oxford started on 11 December 2016.
Thames Transit[1] was a bus and coach company which operated in the Oxford area. As well as running a number of local services, it also ran a regular service to London (via the M40 motorway) under the Oxford Tube brand. It was sold in July 1997 to Stagecoach, and traded as Stagecoach in Oxfordshire. As of 2022 it is part of Stagecoach West.
Stagecoach X5 is an inter-urban bus service linking Oxford and Bedford via Bicester, Buckingham and Milton Keynes. Service started in 1992 with an hourly service between Oxford and Cambridge, which was increased to half-hourly in 2005; [1] new vehicles were introduced in 2009 and again in 2015. It operates with a 30-minute frequency for much of ...
In 2017, route S3 was caught up in a bus route war in Woodstock following the extension of an Oxford Bus Company Park & Ride service and the creation of Stagecoach's route 7. Subsequently, route S3's daytime frequency was reduced to two buses per-hour instead of three, and would work alongside route 7 to provide four services per-hour between ...