Cardiff Bus

In a nation cursed with a public transport system generally as effective as a chocolate fireguard, Cardiff’s bus services are actually well above average. The bus station, however, is enough to make you buy a car and burn a tank of petrol on getting away from the place. Currently undergoing extensive redevelopment, hopefully once complete it will erase memories of a depressing, decrepit 1980s structure populated by scumbags and beggars. Until then it is — amazingly — worse, as many services don’t run to/​from there, making figuring out your exact bus journey a nightmare even for locals, and with many bays cordoned off there’s barely space for the buses that do.

A little warning from a local: DON’T ENTER THE BUS STATION. IF THERE’S A REASON TO ENTER THE BUS STATION, IGNORE IT. IF A FRIEND TELLS YOU TO MEET THEM AT THE BUS STATION, IT’S PROBABLY A TRAP. GET A NEW FRIEND AND CONSIDER THAT ONE DEAD TO YOU.
Seriously though, hyperbole aside, you should have no reason and no desire to enter this godforsaken hellhole that squats in the centre of our fair city attracting the buzzing nuisances of cosmopolitan life like a giant, dead raccoon. If the vile appearance of the place doesn’t immediately put you off, perhaps the violent drunks that lurk there will. I’m not kidding; there are groups of drunken homeless people (winos? Are they technically winos if they’re drunk?) that hang out there fighting one another and screaming obscenities at anyone unfortunate to need to be there.
It seems to be in the process of being knocked down and built into something halfway attractive. If you have to visit the station, wait until it’s been rebuilt. It may be a slight inconvenience to your travel plans, but trust me, it’s worth it.

Get your buses to everywhere around Cardiff; for the day just £3 day to go, for the week £14 week to go ticket, for a month £45. No more need of bus change then! I usually get the day to go ticket if I’m out and about for just a day, around Cardiff. If you just want a single ticket then it is £1. 50p for a few zones.
The Pontprennau busses are the most popular and busiest of busses, which I use to get from town and Albany road to Penylan and back. They have a ticket office where you can buy such monthly and weekly tickets and other tickets for things.
From the bus station the Pontprennau busses do not travel from any more as they go by John Lewis, near to the NatWest bank in town centre, by the Capital building. It is right by the train station and near to the VUE Cinema, and plenty of shops and cafes. The Taxi’s tend to wait around outside the train station. I recommend to all, disabled and well chair access.

Since moving to Cardiff ive used the buses many many times, there are 4 zones within Cardiff and you buy a ticket covering the number of zones you wish to cover. In the past ive been a holder of the monthly season ticket, but found when i moved house it was cheaper for me to buy the tickets individually everyday so check prices for the cheapest way to travel! On most occasions the buses are on time (there have obviously been exceptions) and ive found the drivers are able to give helpful advise as to where to get off for particular locations — something they refuse to do in some cities!

I have recently received my Senior Persons Buss pass and I cannot praise it enough. I no longer take the car into town or to travel locally, I use the bus. My local bus is always on time and I use it to go shopping, visiting friends, doctors etc. The bus network in Cardiff is fairly extensive, all buses terminating in the hub of Cardiff Central Station. Most routes have buses every half an hour, some are more frequent and there are lots of buses which serve those coming home from the city centre pubs as they run quite late into the night. Well done to Cardiff Council for supplying these free passes to the over 60’s