The member of the committee responsible for Public Transport is Mike Dawes. If you have an issue regarding Highways please contact him using the contact us button above.


New Chatterbus!

October 2024

If you use the 715 or the 513 to go to and from Kingston, the reopening of Cromwell Road bus station, due for this summer, has been delayed until this autumn - no date given by TfL.

The reason is the discovery of an (unmapped) high-pressure water pipe during excavation, together with a steel subcontractor going into administration. The 715 and 513 will continue to terminate at Eden Street for the time being.

May 2024

As of Monday, 24th March, the Chatterbus (C3) is now serving Audley Fairmile four times a day on Mondays – Fridays. The bus leaves Audley Fairmile at 10:30, 12:30, 15:00 and 15:52 to go to Cobham High Street and the station. In the other direction it leaves Cobham Waitrose at 10:22, 12:22, 14:52 and 15:44. It does not stop in Fairmile Lane itself.

2nd October 2023

Above you can see one of the new Falcon buses that is now serving the Kingston to Guildford via Cobham route. The timetable is the same as before and it is running well with the exception of delays caused by increased traffic on the route.

2nd February 2023

You may have noticed the new bus shelter at Cobham and Stoke D'Abernon which has been invaluable to bus passengers during the cold and wet weather. We were delighted to have worked with Cobham Chatterbus and Surrey County Council to have this errected. It will be too expensive to have a real time information board giving details of when the next bus will be arriving but there is one in the station.

27th November 2022

Currently the 715 bus is being cancelled about once a day due to lack of drivers. We feel that buses shouldn't be advertised if they are ultimately going to be cancelled. We are taking notes of which buses are being cancelled and will raise this issue with Surrey County Council.

Real time passenger information board at bus stops

April 26th 2022

 

Following the lobbying by our committee member responsible for public transport we were pleased to see that earlier this month Surrey County Council installed a real time passenger information display at the bus stop outside Sainsbury's Local in the High Street. This gives times for the Chatterbus, 408 and 513 services.

 

Unfortunately the rapidly refreshing nature of this particular display means that our camera couldn't capture the letters and numbers in the top right corner well.

 

January 31st 2022

We are delighted to be able to report that a real time board has been added to the bus shelter outside Cobham's Health Centre to let passengers know how long till the next bus. Unfortunately the bus stop on the opposite side of the road doesn't have an appropriate shelter to add one at the moment, but this is being looked into.

The board at the bus shelter in Cobham High Street (by Sainsbury's Local) should be up by April, it's currently awaiting cabling work. A big thanks to our Mike Dawes, out committee member for public transport for pushing for this.

31st January 2022
If you use the Chatterbus you will be pleased to hear they now have a second bus, the C3, which started running today. For a full timetable visit their WEBSITE  The C3 provides more middle of the day services to and from Cobham Station and provides a new service to Cobham Free School (main site) via Cobham Health Centre.

November 8th 2021

 

Our committee member for public transport has been in communication with the Senior Transport Officer, Passenger Transport Projects at Surrey County Council about the need for a real time passenger information board at the bus stop outside Sainsbury's. This would let passengers know exactly when the next bus was due. Funding has been identified, a contractor has surveyed the bus shelter and following some remedial works it's hoped the board can be in place withing six months.