Bus service changes
Service changes from 8 February 2025
Westoning – road closure from 8 to 28 February 2025
Grant Palmer route 42 (Dunstable – Flitwick – Bedford ) will not be able to serve the B5120 between Westoning and Flitwick due to a road closure. Route 42 will operate to a revised route and timetable.
Bus stops at Flitwick, Vicarage Hill and Westoning, Highfields Court, will not be served.
Buses will operate at normal times between Bedford and Flitwick Post Office, and will continue to and from Mount Hill at normal times, but will not run through Mount Hill to Harlington and Toddington.
Buses to / from Dunstable, Toddington, Harlington and Westoning will run at normal times, but passengers will need to change bus in Flitwick Interchange to travel to points between Flitwick and Bedford. Buses will wait for the incoming bus to allow customers to transfer. A few journeys at the start and end of each day will run through between Dunstable / Toddington and Bedford.
Read about the closure on Grant Palmer's website.
Flittabus services will also be subject to diversion / delays during these works.
Service changes from 16 February 2025
Grant Palmer route 200 (Biggleswade – Shefford – Flitwick) will have minor timetable changes, journeys from Biggleswade will serve Biggleswade Transport Interchange and in Flitwick, all journeys will run to and from Flitwick Transport Interchange.
The single journey via Upper Gravenhurst will now follow the regular route, and Upper Gravenhurst will not be served by route 200. A number of Whitbread Wanderbus routes continue to serve Upper Gravenhurst.
Read more about the route 200 changes on Grant Palmer's website.
Grant Palmer route Jo (Luton – Busway – Houghton Regis – Linmere). This new route will operate Monday to Friday bringing buses to the Linmere development for the first time. Buses will operate a one-way loop via Waterslade Way, Box Crescent and Silver Birch Avenue and call at new bus stops.
Read about route Jo on Grant Palmer's website
Service changes from 23 February 2025
Arriva routes
26 (Luton – Bushmead – Bramingham Park Sainsburys), 31 (Luton – Bury Park – Dunstable) and 821 (Luton – St. Albans schools) will have minor timetable changes.
Read about the new timetable on Arriva's website.
Red Eagle route 34 (Dunstable – Markyate – St Albans) will have minor timetable changes.
Stagecoach route MK1 (Bedford – Barton le Clay – Luton – Luton Airport – Milton Keynes) will have minor timetable changes.
Visit Stagecoach's website for more information.
New timetables for all these services will be on Traveline and on bus operators’ websites.
Service changes from 5 January 2025
Dunton Lane – Road closure from 10 January 2025
Dunton Lane in Biggleswade is closed to all traffic for 10 weeks starting Friday 10 January 2025. Find out more about the road closure.
Grant Palmer bus routes 72 and 190 will not be able to serve Hatley Turn, Wrestlingworth, Eyeworth and Dunton, and will operate direct between Potton and Biggleswade via the B 1040. Daytime buses on route 72 will extend to Biggleswade Retail Park.
Temporary route 188 will run in a loop from Biggleswade to Potton then via Hatley Turn (peak time journeys only), Wrestlingworth, Eyeworth and Dunton to Potton and Biggleswade.
School time journeys to and from Stratton Upper School and Edward Peake School will continue to run on route 189, and morning and afternoon journeys on route 188 will also serve these schools.
Find out more on the Grant Palmer website
New timetables for all these services are on Traveline and will appear on bus operators’ websites.