Great Western Coffee Shop

tl;dr: covid was an opportunity to massacre bus services and Bath's 6 and 7 bus's usefulness has taken a hammering.

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Finding that a search for something like 'Bath 6 bus timetable' somehow pulls an undated but pre-2019 timetable from First's site for the 6, 6a and 7 , it was useful to compare that with the current service, which has cramped the nature of the service considerably as it  doesn't support multimodal or even connections into another bus nearly as well - and isn't particularly supportive of travel to school, an early start for longer distance travel by rail whether work related or not, or say, travel to Bristol for work.

Then: start of service provided the first bus into town before 06:30 or 6:35, regular interval until 7 and only dropping to hourly at 8pm. Buses ran to and from the bus station.

Now: start of service provides the first bus into town arriving at 7:13 but like the rest of the day's service, only to Grand Parade so a hoof to station or bus station for onward connections. Service falls away after six and goes to one an hour for the last three buses of the day (the services that are underwritten by the local authority - these three finally serve the railway station but not sure if they actually start from the bus station...)

Other things aside, though useful for this exercise, it would probably be useful for customers if First's web site didn't expose historic timetables to retrieval via a search... and before that, put a version number and date on the timetable.

Mark

Undated historic timetables, the second links to a pretty one, and these are timetables of two different (historic) generations, as the provision slips considerably between the two:
https://www.firstbus.co.uk/uploads/node_images/6-6A-7%20(Bath).pdf
https://www.firstbus.co.uk/uploads/maps/Bath_Service_6_6A-7_WEB_0.pdf

Current(ish) timetable:
https://www.firstbus.co.uk/api/timetables/pdf?opco=3&service=6%2F6a%2F7&day=mf&print=pdf