Bus company East Yorkshire has announced that it will be launching a recruitment drive in Hull, as lockdown restrictions lift and buses start getting busier.
The company is giving local residents the chance to train to become bus drivers to help run its network of services in the city and beyond.
Beverley Travel owner Karl Douglas is hopeful that people will again be allowed to travel overseas.
He also says that as an industry they fully expect popular family destinations will welcome back holidaymakers this summer.
With summer beckoning, now’s the time that the UK would usually be gearing up for the holidays.
However, with no proper overseas travel in the pipeline for a while, we’re all going to need to think outside the box, and in our eyes, there’s no better way to feel free and enjoy all the benefits of summertime travel while staying safe than a road trip!
Assistant Chief Constable Paul Anderson speaks about the new regulations and how communities have pulled together to keep each other safe.
His comments come following news that a part in Beverley was broken up while one person at the event was also arrested for possession of drugs.
With the region entering local restrictions, bus company East Yorkshire is reminding passengers bus travel is safe and has introduced even more safety measures to help protect bus users.
These have been implemented in time for people doing their Christmas shopping and to help encourage them not to use their cars, keeping congestion low.
Local bus company East Yorkshire have announced their Christmas bus schedules, including special Boxing Day services across the region.
The company’s buses will be running to different timetables between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day, with extensive services also running on Boxing Day this year.
Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, has given councils across Yorkshire and Humber a further £19.1 million to create safe space for cycling and walking.
The money comes as surveys and independent polls show strong public support for high-quality schemes.
Local bus company East Yorkshire has announced that their buses will continue running during the lockdown.
The operator’s buses will all run to normal timetables, to enable people to continue to travel to school, college, supermarkets and essential employment.
Parents who had their babies during lockdown are being encouraged to come forward and register their births as soon as possible.
Over 100 new families whose children were born between February and June, under the care of Hull Women and Children’s hospital have not yet obtained a birth certificate.
To celebrate Clean Air Day, bus company East Yorkshire is highlighting its commitment to creating a cleaner, more environmentally fleet.
Over the past two years, East Yorkshire has invested in 27 brand new ultra-low emission buses, each meeting the highest Euro 6 environmental standards, helping to keep our air clean and free from pollution.
Bus company East Yorkshire is celebrating Car Free Day on Tuesday 22 September by highlighting all the benefits of catching the bus.
World Car Free Day is a global event, encouraging the population to try giving up their cars for the day and exploring more sustainable ways to travel – whether that’s by public transport, by bike, or simply walking.
NHS East Riding of Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) will be holding their Annual General Meeting (AGM) next month, and they are extending an invitation to patients and the public to join them online as the meeting takes place virtually for the first time.
Cyclists in Hull are being urged to make use of the city’s pop-up cycle lanes across the city.
The advice comes as Hull City Council works to install segregated cycle lanes to provide extra safety measures for cyclists using some of the city’s most busy roads.
Construction has started on a new roundabout on the A165 Scarborough Road in Bridlington, halfway between the junctions of Seathorne Road and Grindale Lane.
The work will also include improving the existing footway to create a combined cycle/footway between Scarborough Roundabout and the new roundabout
Work to install pop-up cycle lanes in Spring Bank and Ferensway has begun in the city.
In Spring Bank, the left-hand lane in both directions will be converted into a combined bus and cycle lane, which will run between Ferensway and Princes Avenue.
An employee consultation asked the staff at KWL in Hull to vote on company values, finding being a friend to the environment was central to its core.
A plan has emerged to become a zero-carbon organisation, with KWL initiatives and company-wide training in action to achieve targets.
East Yorkshire has launched two innovative travel tools for customers. Along with social distancing, wearing face coverings and enhanced cleaning, the new tools aim to give people the confidence to use buses as customers return to work and school.
Customers will be able to use the ‘When2Travel’ tool when planning their journey, to see how busy a journey usually is using a sliding scale from green (very quiet) to red (very busy). They will also be able to track a specific bus in real-time, to see how busy the bus actually is on the day.
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