A free volunteer bus service will be run in Huddersfield on New Year’s Day for the 23rd year in a row.
The Green Party will be running the service which first began in the early 1990s when bus services had been drastically reduced over the festive period.
This year it be running on the route of the 319 service and timetables will be placed in local shops and at bus stops.
It follows the Boxing Day bus service which Green Party councillor Robert Barraclough and Derek Hardcastle ran from Flockton/Grange Moor into Huddersfield town centre, and which attracted over 50 passengers.
Newsome Green Party Clr Andrew Cooper said: “We are continuing to offer people a way of getting out and about without having to use a car or pay expensive taxi fares.
“The service not only links the communities of Newsome, Taylor Hill and Berry Brow with town but also with Huddersfield Royal Infirmary for people visiting relatives and friends.”
The service starts at 11am and runs for seven hours allowing people to go into town and do their shopping, or visit friends and loved ones in Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
Buses will leave Farehill Road, Berry Brow, every hour, starting at 11am.
They will stop at Edale Avenue, Newsome Church, Westgate and arrive at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary at half past the hour. The return journey aims to arrive back at Berry Brow on the hour.
The last service leaves Berry Brow at 6pm, arriving back at 7pm.
