Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you provide me with information on bus routes in town centres.

1. The number of bus routes in operation which pass through town centres in your local authority in each of the financial years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
Please find attached the public transport maps & guide for September 2018 which will show routes operating in 2018/2019 & 2019/2020.
Please find attached the public transport map & guide for September 2019 which shows routes operating for 2019/2020 & 2020/2021.
Please find attached the public transport map & guide for September 2022 which shows routes operating for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023.
Please find attached the public transport map & guide for September 2024 which shows routes operating for 2023/2024 and 2024/2025.
We don’t have the map & guides available September 2020, September 2021 or September 2023, however you can see from the attached maps that the number of bus routes in Wokingham Borough are stable. The main changes to bus routes have been around P&R routes, however these do not serve town centres in Wokingham Borough.

2. The number of bus stops in operation in town centres in your local authority in each of the financial years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
We do not record the year of installation of a bus stop, so this is difficult to calculate accurately. The number, type and location of all current bus stops are shown in the BSIP, which is available here: https://www.myjourneywokingham.com/media/4629/wokingham-bus-service-improvement-plan-2024.pdf Wokingham BUS SERVICE IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2024. No new bus stops have been added in town centres.

3. The total number of miles bus routes in your local authority covered in each of the financial years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
We have not historically collected this information. We have only asked operators to provide this information as part of the BSIP which can be viewed on page 67 of the BSIP document available here: https://www.myjourneywokingham.com/media/4629/wokingham-bus-service-improvement-plan-2024.pdf Wokingham BUS SERVICE IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2024

4. The total number of hours buses were in operation in your local authority in each of the financial years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
We do not calculate or collect this information. For the years we have copies of our area guides, these have been provided, which would allow someone to get an indication of the hours of operation of bus service in Wokingham Borough.