Local bus company East Yorkshire has transformed its summer seaside express service for 2019.
A popular service, the X21 from Hull and Beverley to Bridlington, Filey and Scarborough. Running daily throughout the summer it has been boosted by better vehicles and extra journeys.
MP Graham Stuart says he is determined to do all he can to help improve the local transport infrastructure.
His comments come following a meeting with Hull Trains Managing Director Louise Cheeseman. At that meeting, the MP discusses the recent issues Hull Trains has faced.
Hull’s popular Big Bus Day event returns again for 2018, with lots to see and do at the Streetlife Museum of Transport.
Jointly organised by local bus company East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) and Hull Museums, Big Bus Day attracts people of all ages, and has become one of the Museum Quarter’s biggest events.
Acklams Coaches in Beverley will take over a service previously operated by EYMS next month taking on a village bus service will increasing it from three days a week to five days per week.
Acklams Coaches , which is a local family run business will take on the 504 service, which carries passengers between Bempton, Buckton and Bridlington, will be run by Acklams Coaches from Monday 3 September.
The Culture Train and Bus Tour 2018 will once again bring a taste of the Hull music scene to communities in East Yorkshire located both alongside the railway lines and accessible by EYMS buses.
The ‘Culture Train and Bus tour’ will bring musicians from Paragon Station to play free concerts at eight venues including the station itself as part of a project.
Bus users in Beverley are being reminded that certain services at certain times will be subject to slight changes to their routes during weeknights.
The local authority currently has a project to resurface the roads around Beverley with the latest phase of works causing some disruption to public transport.
The East Riding will welcome some of the world’s top cyclists, including Olympic silver medallist and UCI Road World Championship winner Mark Cavendish, on Thursday, 3 May when Beverley hosts the start of both the men’s and women’s Tour de Yorkshire.
Thousands of spectators are expected to line the race route in the East Riding as the peloton races through the area, taking in a number of towns and villages including Tour de Yorkshire debutants Howden and Hornsea.
Bridlington’s popular Park and Ride service reopens for business on Saturday, 24 March, and runs until 4 November, 2018.
Park and Ride offers a frequent service, with buses running regularly from South Cliff Holiday Park to the harbour. Costing only £4.50 per vehicle (up to five passengers), Park and Ride represents excellent value for money, and buses run until 6.15pm each day.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has announced that the current temporary closure of the bridge over the Dutch River at Rawcliffe Bridge has had to be extended.
It had been intended to reopen the road next Monday 20 November, but the road over the bridge will now be closed for a further four weeks, and is now scheduled to reopen on Monday, 18 December.
Hull’s wildly popular Big Bus Day returns again for 2017, with lots to see and do at the Streetlife Museum of Transport.
Jointly organised by local bus company East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) and Hull Museums, Big Bus Day attracts people of all ages, and has become one of the Museum Quarter’s biggest events.
East Yorkshire’s well-known ‘Poppy Bus’, first decorated to celebrate the centenary of the start of WWI in 2014, has just been re-liveried again to mark 100 years since Passchendaele, also known as the second Battle of Ypres, which took place between July and November 1917.
EYMS chief executive Peter Shipp says the bus was so well received by people that the company have kept with the theme.
After only two months East Yorkshire Motor Services’ new mobile phone app has achieved the coveted 5 star rating on the App Store (and 4.7 stars on Google Play).
Launched on 3 April, by the end of May there had been 6,230 users with over 78,000 sessions and almost 480,000 screen views by local people using the app, and ticket sales have been increasing each week.
Local bus company East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) has announced its Christmas bus schedules for this year, and has revealed it will be giving the gift of half price travel to its passengers over the festive period.
The company’s Twelve Days of Christmas campaign will offer everyone half price weekly tickets over the festive season, as a Christmas gift to passengers.