Sunday Travel Arrangements

[Drummond]

Aston Villa is pleased to announce we will be providing additional transport to Sunday’s game against Brighton and Hove Albion at Villa Park.

For fans travelling to the stadium from the city centre, a pre-match shuttle bus service will run from Dudley Street (near New Street Station) starting at 2pm.

Buses will depart at 10-minute intervals, with the final service leaving at 4pm. The buses will drop fans at Grosvenor Road near Aston train station, leaving supporters with a five-minute walk to Villa Park.

Post-match, shuttles will run from Grosvenor Road starting at 6pm.  Again, buses will depart at 10-minute intervals, with the final service leaving at 8pm.

All services will shuttle fans back to Dudley Street.

Each shuttle (one-way) will be priced at £5. Payment can made either by cash or card, payable to the driver on the bus.

Marshalls will be on hand to ensure passengers access the services safely from both the city centre and Grosvenor Road.

A sign of things to come?

[chrisw1]

£5 each way?  That seems a bit toppish to me?

[LeeB]

A fiver?

[aldridgeboy]

Fair play for helping, I guess.
But I think if there’s more than two of you , a taxi would be cheaper ?

[pauliewalnuts]

Nice to see them trying something new but £10 for a bus trip to Aston and back?

Who’s driving the buses? The squad?

[LeeB]

You can get the 67 from Dale End to the same spot for £2, every 7 minutes before 3pm and every 20 mins after that.

[Clampy]

Yep, a nice idea and let's face it, it has been called for but a fiver each way is a tad steep.

[Risso]

How much is a taxi from New Street to the ground these days? Surely no more than a tenner? Going to get the train from Oakham to Brum on Sunday and spend the day on the absolute lash.

[sid1964]

I wonder if this will be a test for the upcoming summer events at Villa Park and if that goes well then this could be a regular service for home games next season.

At least the club are trying to do something to ease the queue's for the trains.

A fiver does seem expensive, but to hire bus and drivers cannot be cheap.

[Nev]

It seems churlish to criticise something we've been campaigning for but the cost is prohibitive. We'll be sharing taxis so it will be much cheaper. The shuttle bus to the cricket is a flat fare of £5 for the day with a discount for kids, that journey is only two miles whereas on Sunday it's nearly four but that is down to the departure point on Dugley Street. That's the wrong side of Town for Villa Park, the service for the CG left from the top end of Corporation St by the Childrens Hospital which halves the journey and would be ideal. That ran very smoothly.

The cynic in me suspects it won't be that busy and they will say "well we tried".

[Pete3206]

Bloody hell, its only £4 for a day saver

[Chico Hamilton III]

Sounds similar to the service laid on in Liverpool city centre to get fans to Anfield and back. Except we paid £4 return last week. £5 each way? If there’s more than one of you, an Uber to the ground would work out cheaper.

[Lastfootstamper]

If they can't even get wumpty to bang on some extra 7s & 67s, I find it a bit of a stretch to think they'll convince tfwm to schedule extra trains on matchdays. Ever.

[Somniloquism]

Too many people comparing private hire coaches against subsidised public buses.

[LeeB]

Too many people comparing private hire coaches against subsidised public buses.

Well they're going to when you can use an identical service at the fraction of the cost, and I don't know what Den Caney charge these days but at a fiver a pop going backwards and forwards a couple of miles those coaches will be shitting money without any help of subsidies.