Metro Bus
Three Metro Bus services connect Pease Pottage with the outside world:
Route 20
- Pease Pottage to the top of Southgate Avenue in Crawley town centre (via Broadfield, taking around 20 to 30 minutes depending on the time of day), and on to Three Bridges station (an extra 5 minutes) and Gatwick Airport south terminal (another 5 minutes).
- Runs every 20 minutes between roughly 5am and 8pm, Mondays to Saturdays.
- Runs every 30 minutes on Sundays, and roughly once per hour at night.
- Bus stops: outside the service station, and on the Woodgate estate.
- Up-to-date timetable: https://www.metrobus.co.uk/services/MB/20
Route 271
- Pease Pottage to Crawley Bus Station (taking approximately 10 minutes).
- Pease Pottage to Brighton (taking approximately 80 minutes), via Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Cuckfield and Staplefield.
- Departures are roughly every two hours in each direction, with limited services in the evenings.
- Bus stops: outside the Black Swan and the service station, and on Tilgate Forest Row.
- Up-to-date timetable: https://www.metrobus.co.uk/services/MB/271
Route 273
- Pease Pottage to Crawley Bus Station (taking approximately 10 minutes).
- Pease Pottage to Brighton (taking approximately 60 minutes), via Hurstpierpoint, Albourne, Sayers Common and Bolney.
- Departures are roughly every two hours in each direction, with limited services in the evenings.
- Bus stops: outside the Black Swan and the service station, and on Tilgate Forest Row.
- Up-to-date timetable: https://www.metrobus.co.uk/services/MB/273
Fares
At the time of writing (February 2024), the national £2 fare limit applies on all single fares from Pease Pottage, even to destinations as far away as Brighton. Before that scheme was introduced, a single fare between Pease Pottage and Crawley was £2.70. The Metrobus web page for each service contains a link to PDFs which specify the latest fares.
Metrobus offer a bewildering variety of season tickets and methods of payment: https://www.metrobus.co.uk/fares-and-tickets.
More Information
For a guide to Metrobus services, including downloadable PDF maps of routes, see https://www.metrobus.co.uk/services.
Disruptions to services are listed at https://www.metrobus.co.uk/service-updates.
Contact Details
- website
- www.metrobus.co.uk
- no email
- phone
- 01293 449191
- address
- Wheatstone Close, Crawley, Sussex, RH10 9UA