Editing Crawley (section)

=== Bus and Fastway ===
[[File:Metrobus in Crawley - YN54 AJV.JPG|thumb|right|A [[Metrobus (South East England)|Metrobus]] [[double-decker bus]] at Crawley bus station]]
Crawley was one of several towns where the boundaries of [[Southdown Motor Services]] and [[London Transport Executive|London Transport]] bus services met. In 1958 the companies reached an agreement which allowed them both to provide services in all parts of the town.<ref name="SouthdownDays">{{Harvnb|Kraemer-Johnson|Bishop|2005|pp=48–55}}</ref> When the [[National Bus Company (UK)|National Bus Company]] was formed in 1969, its [[London Country Bus Services]] subsidiary took responsibility for many routes, including [[Green Line Coaches]] cross-London services which operated to distant destinations such as [[Watford]], [[Luton]] and [[Amersham]]. A coach station was opened by Southdown in 1931 on the A23 at County Oak, near Lowfield Heath: it was a regular stopping point for express coaches between London and towns on the Sussex coast. This traffic started to serve Gatwick when the airport began to grow, however.<ref name="SouthdownDays"/>  When the National Bus Company was broken up, local services were provided by the new [[London Country South West|South West division]] of London Country Bus Services, which later became part of the [[Arriva]] group. [[Metrobus (South East England)|Metrobus]] acquired these routes from Arriva in March 2001, and is now Crawley's main operator.<ref name="goahead">{{cite web|url=http://www.go-ahead.com/Main.php?sFileName=NewsRelease.php&iNewsId=130&s |title=Acquisition of Crawley Depot |access-date=31 July 2007 |publisher=Go Ahead Group |year=2001 |work=Go Ahead Group website |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116023202/http://www.go-ahead.com/Main.php?sFileName=NewsRelease.php&iNewsId=130&s |archive-date=16 January 2009 }}</ref> It provides local services between the neighbourhoods and town centre, and longer-distance routes to [[Horsham]], [[Redhill, Surrey|Redhill]], [[Tunbridge Wells]], [[Worthing]] and [[Brighton]].<ref name="buses">{{cite web |url=http://www.metrobus.co.uk/service_index.php |title=Timetables & Route Index |access-date=31 July 2007 |publisher=Go Ahead Group |year=2007 |work=Metrobus Website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709064631/http://www.metrobus.co.uk/service_index.php |archive-date=9 July 2007 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

In September 2003 a [[guided bus]] service, [[Crawley Fastway|Fastway]], began operating between [[Bewbush, Crawley|Bewbush]] and [[Gatwick Airport]].<ref name="fastway">{{cite web|url=http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=2383834&|title=Fastway: Phase One Service Launched|access-date=31 July 2007|publisher=West Sussex County Council|year=2003|work=Fastway, Issue 6|format=PDF|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011702/http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=2383834& |archive-date = 27 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> A second route, from Broadfield to the Langshott area of [[Horley]], north of Gatwick Airport, was added on 27 August 2005.<ref name="route20">{{cite web|url=http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=2383828&|title=Fastway information and timetable from 27&nbsp;August 2005|access-date=5 September 2007|publisher=West Sussex County Council|year=2005|work=Fastway leaflet (2005) at West Sussex County Council Roads & Transport website|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011605/http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=2383828& |archive-date = 27 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>