Coaches
George Monbiot's article on a revitalised Coach Network - 'Life Coaching' discusses "visionary economist Alan Storkey"'s ideas for a system where special "coaches would never leave the trunk roads and motorways. Some services would constantly circle the orbital roads; others would travel up and down the motorways that connect to them. You would change from one coach to another at the junctions. Just 200 coaches on the M25, Storkey calculates, would ensure an average waiting time of between two and three minutes. They would be given dedicated lanes and priority at traffic lights, disentangling them from the cars which now hold them up and force them to bunch. The tabloid newspapers might fulminate, but it would not be long before people stuck in their cars began to notice the buses roaring past on the inside... Storkey’s system costs next to nothing. It requires no new roads, no railway lines, no major public subsidies. If the land now occupied by coach stations is sold, it could be self-financing from inception"
http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/media/adobe_acrobat/7/4/Gloucestershire%20Map%20Side.pdf
Gloucestershire's Public Transport County Map
has been re-issued (1st August 2007) - copies available from the Tourist Info in the Sub Rooms
Planning a trip by public transport
Traveline's Journey Planner will tell you about trains, coaches, local buses, ferries, underground trains and trams.
Buses
The Stroud Night Bus - "links the five valleys to Stroud, collecting people who want to visit Stroud on a Friday or Saturday evening. Tickets are only £2.50 for a return journey from any of the parishes and there’s an introductory offer of £25 for a 'season ticket' giving unlimited free travel." (Currently suspended due to complaints from taxi drivers)