Passengers in the East Riding are to benefit from a new bus service and improvements to existing routes which started this month.
Launching the new and extended bus services are, from left, Chris Mottershaw (transport commissioning manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council), Councillor Nick Coultish, Ben Gilligan (managing director of East Yorkshire Buses) and Stuart Fillingham (commercial director of East Yorkshire Buses) in front of the buses.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has funded a new bus service and evening runs on two existing routes which began on Monday 21 July to make it easier for people to reach hospital appointments and access local towns and villages.
The improvements have been made possible thanks to the council being awarded Government funding from the Department for Transport for Bus Service Improvement.
Service 141 is a brand new bus linking Bridlington, Driffield and Beverley with Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham.
Running alongside the existing Service 41, it means there will be a bus every 30 minutes during the daytime travelling between Bridlington and Beverley.
The 141 service also stops at East Riding Community Hospital on Swinemoor Lane in Beverley and close to the town’s Lidl and Morrisons supermarkets.
Two further bus routes have been extended into the evening on weekdays to give passengers more opportunities to access places and the services and activities they offer.
Service 41, which runs between Hull, Beverley, Driffield and Bridlington, has added evening journeys on Mondays to Thursdays, matching the existing evening runs on Fridays and Saturdays.
Monday to Thursday evening journeys have been added to Service X47 which travels between Hull, Beverley, Pocklington and York to match the current evening services offered on Fridays and Saturdays.
All three services are being operated by East Yorkshire Buses.
