Some of Doncaster’s bus services are back to normal today – but these are the ones still disrupted by the snow

The bus company First South Yorkshire has this morning issued an update on how its services are affected by the weather that brought buses to a halt yesterday.

They are as follows:

X78 – currently missing out Conisbrough on the outbound journey. Operating via Hill Top direct through the village to pick up normal route at the castle.

15 – Service terminating at Tait Avenue / Edlington Lane bus stop but normal back to Clay Lane.

84a – Will operate as normal bus miss out Kirk Bramwith

64a – Will operate as a 64 Direct along Bentley Road and will not serve Ings estate

51 and 51a – Will not serve The Avenue or Instonville

14 – Will not serve Mansfield Road, Florence Avenue, Stapleton Road and Howbeck Drive.

54 – Service as normal but will not serve Bosworth Road

138 – Currently suspended

114 – Normal to Dovedale Road, then diverting to end of Dovedale Road onto Herringthorpe Valley Road to the Stag roundabout, then normal route.

All other services as normal.

First and Stagecoach suspended all their routes in the borough yesterday with some parts of the town reporting several inches of snow. Residents in Sprotbrough were reporting around five inches.

Some services were evening starting to return yesterday evening

Some residents raised concerns over the amount of gritting that has been carried out in the borough overnight, but Doncaster Council Head of Waste and Highways Infrastructure, Lee Garrett, said adverse weather overnight meant that the highways gritting team started operations once the rain ceased at 5am on Thursday 14 January – otherwise the grit/salt would wash away. Upon their return to the North Bridge depot, they proceeded to grit precautionary routes for a second time around the borough. This included Covid-19 vaccination centres in the local area.

He said last night: “We will continue to retreat / re-plough hotspot areas and priority footways. To avoid traffic delays and slowing our gritting process, please stay safe on the roads and only go out if you REALLY need to.”

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