City Red launches “The ‘1’ you’ve been waiting for”

City Red launches “The ‘1’ you’ve been waiting for”

The brand-new City Red Service 1 will operate 7 days a week between Calmore, Totton and Southampton City Centre from 22 September.

Starting Sunday 22 September 2019, a brand-new City Red bus service will connect Calmore, Totton and the City Centre 7 days a week. “City Red 1” will depart from Bearslane Close in Calmore, and call at Richmond Close, Testwood Crescent, Totton Shopping Centre, Southampton Central Station before reaching its destination at Southampton City Centre approximately 35 minutes after starting its journey.

Over the past few weeks, the bus operator has been busy promoting the new service with the tag line “The ‘1’ you’ve been waiting for”. As part of the marketing efforts, management and staff were at Southampton Bargate on Thursday 19 September to talk to customers and hand out promotional items and information leaflets.

The service will operate up to every 10 minutes Monday to Friday daytime, and up to every 20 minutes during weekend and public holiday daytimes. 

City Red Interim Managing Director Simon Goff said: “We are really excited to introduce the newest edition to the City Red family.  We’ve added smart buses featuring cleaner Euro VI engines for City Red 1, and a friendly team of local bus drivers. With a number of popular destinations along the route, including Central Station, WestQuay, Marlands, ASDA, SeaCity museum, the Civic Centre and Art Gallery, we hope that this new service will now finally meet the needs of bus passengers in Calmore and Totton”.