What will be changing?
Until the current contract for route 73 comes to an end in December 2024, the changes being made from Monday 30th September will see an additional bus, numbered 73A, providing a service that is focused around the requirements of passengers attending Thurston Community College. This means that passengers travelling to / from school and college in Bury St Edmunds will travel on a different bus to passengers travelling to / from Thurston Community College. Service 73 will be unchanged between Garboldisham and Pakenham, and will then operate directly to Bury St Edmunds bus station via Great Barton. Thurston will no longer be served. At school / college times service 73 will extend from Bury St Edmunds bus station to West Suffolk College and St Benedicts Catholic School.
Passengers travelling to / from Thurston Community College should use new service 73A, which will operate on schooldays only. This service will operate via the 73 route between Garboldisham and Bardwell, and will then serve Ixworth and terminate at Thurston Community College. The return journey will depart Thurston Community College at 15:35, reducing the length of time that students have to wait at the end of the school day to catch their bus home.