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Arriva Bus 191 trial service: Liberty Quays- Campus- Dockyard

We are working with Arriva bus company to improve the bus services to campus. As a trial for 2016/17, the 191 service will now operate to and from Liberty Quays- Campus- Chatham- Isle of Grain. This includes stopping on Pembroke campus and at Western Avenue and Dock Road for access to the Historic Dockyard Chatham. This will help students and staff getting to campus, particularly students travelling between Liberty Quays and the Historic Dockyard Chatham.

The 191 trial will come into effect from 18 September 2016 and will be monitored over the academic year. Please provide feedback to the Transport Team – transport@kent.ac.uk.

Don’t forget to check out the discounted tickets, routes and timetables at www.kent.ac.uk/transport/arriva. The annual student and staff tickets allow travel on any Arriva bus all over Medway, Kent and East Sussex. The student annual ticket is £140 which works out as only 39p per day!

Look out for the Transport Team, Estates, over Arrivals Weekend and the coming weeks where you can ask any questions and pick up timetables, leaflets and freebies.

For more information follow @unikent_travel on Twitter or visit our transport news webpages at www.kent.ac.uk/transport/news.

Transport Team

01227 82 3609   transport@kent.ac.uk   @unikent_travel   www.kent.ac.uk/transport

Estates Department, University of Kent, Park Wood Road, Canterbury, CT2 7NN

Transport Updates: @unikent_travel   Transport News Blog

Cycle to Work Day

On behalf of Kent Sport:

On Wednesday 14 September Kent Sport would like to invite all University of Kent staff and students who cycle to work/study or are interested in cycling, to join them at the NEW Kent Sport Cycle Hub (due for completion very soon, located next to the Pavilion) for tea/coffee and bacon rolls.

There will be a chance to talk to Kent Sport staff about the Cycle Hub and its cycle hire, maintenance and events in collaboration with other University initiatives promoting cycling on campus, such as Dr Bike. We welcome any comments or feedback from riders on the day. The event runs on Wednesday 14 from 8am to 9am with a photo opportunity at 8.30am.

Cancellation of National Express 270 service to London Gatwick Airport

The National Express 270 service to London Gatwick Airport is unfortunately being cancelled this month.

The service launched in December 2015 but due to lack of numbers, National Express have come to the decision that it is not financially sustainable to keep the service running.

The service which called at Canterbury and Medway campuses will cease running from 17 July 2016.

If you still wish to travel by coach from the University campuses to London Gatwick airport you can take a National Express coach to London Victoria and change.

The 022 service calls at Keynes bus stop at the Canterbury campus and has a regular service to London Victoria.

The 022 and 007 services from Hempstead Valley shopping centre in Medway also go to London Victoria.

New card access cycle shelter- Medway campus

From listening to feedback from cyclists at Medway we have decided to install card access cycle shelters at the Medway campus.

Between Monday 4 July and Tuesday 12 July, works will be carried out to transform the cycle loops by Rochester building to a covered card access cycle shelter.

Please use the cycle loops at the bottom of the steps by the Medway building while the work is being carried out.

Kent School Games 30 June 2016

To assist Kent Sport with the Kent School Games the Sports Centre blue zone, Sports Centre Pay and Display and Pavilion blue zone and Pay and Display car parks will be closed on Thursday 30 June 2016. An area within the Park Wood Farthing Court car park will also be closed.

As this is during the vacation period parking should still be available within the central campus car parks, however, please be aware if these do become full then you may need to use the car parks within the Park Wood area, including the parking bays available next to the Park Wood accommodation.

Pedestrian signs within Park Wood Courts will inform you of the average time required to walk to the main campus. Alternatively, you can use the Park and Ride bus ticket that was sent with your parking permit to travel to and from Park Wood and the main campus.

Throughout the summer we will be updating our Transport News web page www.kent.ac.uk/transport/news and our twitter www.twitter.com/unikent_travel regarding the car parks. Our twitter feed is also available through the Transport News web page.

Please remember that parking enforcement will continue in accordance with the University Regulations for the Management of Traffic.

Summer Student Unirider Ticket available to purchase

All Unirider academic year bus tickets have now expired as the tickets are valid for the academic year only.

If you still want to get around the East Kent area easily and affordably check out the Summer Unirider ticket which is available to purchase online from Stagecoach.

The Summer Unirider ticket costs £70 and is valid until 18 September 2016.

Purchase your Summer Unirider ticket here (this link will take you to the Stagecoach website).

The Uni1 and Uni2 buses are currently running on a summer timetable. Learn more about the changes to the summer timetable and how to plan your journey here.

Giles Lane car park repairs update

Due to the weather the planned repairs of Giles Lane pink and blue zone car parks have been delayed. This will mean that the pink zone car park will remain closed on Tuesday 21 June, and the repairs within the blue zone car park will commence on the 21 June. As previously advised a different section of the blue zone car park will be sectioned off each day and reopened as soon as the repairs have been completed, again we will only close one section at a time.

In the mean time we have reopened the areas of the car park that we are able to for the rest of today.

 

Canterbury campus summer parking

Coach Park Giles Lane Blue Zone 20 June to 16 September 2016

To assist with Kent Hospitality conference guests and school visits to the University a coach park will be in place in Giles Lane blue zone car park in the area behind Woolf College from 20 June 2016 to 16 September 2016.

To confirm, the area that will be closed within Giles Lane blue zone is the small parking area to the right when entering the car park, and will mean the closure of approximately 40 bays.

Car Park Repairs Giles Lane Pink and Blue Zone 20 June to 22 June 2016

To allow for the repair of Giles Lane car parks following Kent Union Party in the car park there will be the following closures:

  • 20 June 2016 Giles Lane pink zone car park closed
  • 20 June 2016 to 22 June 2016 Giles Lane blue zone each day a section of the car park will be closed for repair. As soon as the repairs have been completed the areas of the car park will be reopened, with only one section being closed per day.

Alterations to drainage works 20 June to 15 July 2016

20 June 2016 to assist the Project Team a section at the end of Giles Lane blue zone adjacent to the steps will be closed for a period of four weeks, during this period access will not be available into or out of the car park via either the gate leading off from Giles Lane or the gate from the footpath next to Design and Print Centre.

As this is during the vacation period parking should still be available within the central campus car parks, however, please be aware if these do become full then you may need to use the car parks within the Park Wood area, including the parking bays available next to the Park Wood accommodation.

Pedestrian signs within Park Wood Courts will inform you of the average time required to walk to the main campus. Alternatively, you can use the Park and Ride bus ticket that was sent with your parking permit to travel to and from Park Wood and the main campus.

Throughout the summer we will be updating our Transport news web page and @unikent_travel  twitter regarding the car parks. Our twitter feed is also available through the Transport news web page.

Please remember that parking enforcement will continue in accordance with the University Regulations for the Management of Traffic.

Medway UCAS Exhibition on 20 and 21 June 2016

This year the annual UCAS Exhibition is being hosted by the University of Greenwich at the Medway campus on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 June 2016.

To assist with traffic management for this event, there will be some changes to transport and parking on these days:

  • There will be a temporary one way system to assist coaches attending this event only. Please be aware that the coaches will be exiting the campus along New Kent Road.
  • The 116 Arriva bus will not serve the campus during this time and will be diverted along Pier road. The closest stops to the University of Kent campus will be St George’s Centre Dock Road and Bridge Road Gillingham.
  • The 10 Pink Zone parking bays on Central Avenue next to the barrier will not be in use and South road on campus will be closed.

Some parking bays are also being used within Drill Hall car park for events on campus but due to the time of year, we do not anticipate parking on campus to be adversely affected.

Stagecoach Summer Timetable

From 19 June 2016 the Uni1 and Uni2 bus services will operate a Summer Timetable.  The Triangle and 4/6 services will be unaffected. The main summer timetable changes are as follows:

Uni1
Different journey times.
Buses up to every 30 minutes.
Buses will not run on Sundays.

Uni2
Different journey times.
Buses will run as far as Keynes – they will not serve Hales Place.
No night buses – the last bus will leave Keynes at 1740 and Canterbury Bus Station at 1725.

Please be aware that you may need to use a different service to usual for your journey. Please see timetable above or use Stagecoach’s online Journey Planner (make sure you put in 19 June or after for date of travel to see summer timetabling.)

The Uni1 and Uni2 summer timetable will continue until 18 September 2016.