Route diversions due to the closure of Poole Lane Roundabout
3 years ago
Due to the closure of Poole Lane Roundabout on Ringwood Road from 23 to 27 October, services 6, 6a, 32, FE1 and X6 will need to divert. They will have temporary timetables during this time. Read on for more details:
The FE1 and X6 will divert NON-STOP via Wallisdown Road, Kinson Road, and Wimborne Road to Bear Cross roundabout. The FE1 will then continue to Longham as usual. After Bear Cross, the X6 will head into Bearwood using Magna Road, Shapland Avenue, Knighton Heath Road to High Howe Lane, then resume its normal route around Bearwood to return to Bear Cross and Ringwood.
Heading towards Poole the X6 will serve Bearwood using the normal route of Magna Road, Runnymede Avenue, King John Avenue, Knights Road and High Howe Lane but then divert onto Shapland Avenue to return to Bear Cross. The X6 will only stop at Mountbatten Roundabout and Discovery Court on the diversion route before continuing NON-STOP to Bear Cross. The FE1 also will operate NON-STOP on the diversion route back to Mountbatten Roundabout. The temporary timetables have extra time to account for expected traffic delays.
The 6a will be suspended and a temporary 6m service will be introduced which will operate between Bournemouth and Mountbatten Roundabout only via the route of the 6 and 6a.
The 6 will divert from Wallisdown Roundabout via Kinson Road, Turbary Park Avenue, Poole Lane, Wimborne Road, Bear Cross roundabout, Magna Road, Shapland Avenue and Knighton Heath Road to serve Bearwood as usual. When heading to Bournemouth, the 6 will still serve Bearwood as usual until High Howe Lane when it will divert via Shapland Avenue, Magna Road, Bear Cross roundabout, Wimborne Road, Poole Lane, Turbary Park Avenue, Kinson Road to return to Wallisdown Road. The 6 will stop at every bus stop on the diversion route.
The nearest stop for the High Howe Close bus stop on Ringwood Road will be the Turbary Park Avenue stop on Poole Lane on the 6. The nearest stop to Kinson (The Acorn) is the Oxford Lane stop on Poole Lane, again using the 6. If you require stops beyond Wallisdown roundabout towards Mountbatten on Wallisdown Road please use the 6m.
The bus stops at Francis Avenue, Paddington Grove, High Howe Close & High Howe Gardens cannot be served during this closure.
The 32 will divert from High Howe Lane, Knighton Heath Road, Shapland Avenue, Magna Road, Bear Cross, Wimborne Road, Anstey Road then resume normal route from Holloway Avenue. The stops from Poole Lane/Turbary Park Avenue to Elm Academy would not be served by the 32 but the 6 would stop at here.
You can view the temporary PDF timetables below:
6/6m timetable (temporarily replacing the 6a)
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by these changes. Please check the temporary timetables carefully to make sure you can be at the correct stop at the right time.