Great News! Harbour Bus Gate will open before Retail Park redevelopment

Following numerous calls from residents in Sovereign Harbour for improved bus services and much talk about the 'Harbour Bus Gate' that will make it possible for the local operator, Stagecoach to increase service frequency to both Harbours, it appears they may now at long last be light at the end of the tunnel.

Local Councillor & Former Eastbourne Buses Chairman, Patrick Warner met with property developers planning the redevelopment of Sovereign Harbour Retail Park to request that priority be given to delivering the bus gate before any construction starts and today was given the assurance that this would happen.

The introduction of the gate will allow buses only to follow a special route from the end of Atlantic Drive in the South Harbour behind the Retail Park and out into Harbour Quay and on to the North Harbour and this will be prevented from becoming a rat run for other motorists by special bollards triggered by equipment on the buses.

Local operator Stagecoach have already indicated that the opening of this gate will enable them to re-route the two existing services that serve the North & South Harbours to be combined, doubling the peak frequencies and enabling improvements to evening and Sunday bus services.