Some bus services could continue to terminate in city centre streets, even after Wolverhampton’s bus station has reopened this summer after a £22.5 million rebuild.

And passengers face more fare rises in the next two years, it has been announced.

National Express West Midlands director Kevin Belfield said that the “massive majority” of bus services in Wolverhampton will start and end their journeys at the Pipers Row bus station after it reopens following more than a year of construction work.

But he confirmed that some “cross-city” will be maintained where there is demand from customers and a “sensible” case for keeping them there. The announcement may offer a lifeline to struggling market traders who have reported increases in custom since several bus routes were reorganised to circumnavigate the Salop Street market.

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