Summer Sunday buses around Nidderdale will resume this weekend on Easter Sunday.
The Dales and Bowland Community Interest Company, which operates the DalesBus, has regular all-year bus services which are supplemented by additional weekend routes into and around Nidderdale National Landscape and the Yorkshire Dales in the summer months.
The services take people to popular locations for days out, including Fountains Abbey, Pateley Bridge and Fewston.
The extra services usually run between May and October but this year they will start early on March 31 and operate until October 20.
All single fares for bus journeys are £2 and £1 for under-19s as part of a national initiative, as reported by the Stray Ferret last week.
The Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus services restarting on Easter Sunday, March 31 are:
- 820 Keighley – Otley – Fewston
- 821 Keighley – Otley – Fewston – Pateley Bridge – Scar House
- 822 Pocklington – York – Ripon – Fountains Abbey – Pateley Bridge – Grassington
- 875 York – Leeds – Ilkley – Grassington – Buckden – Hawes
- 876 Leeds – Ilkley – Grassington – Buckden – Hawes
From Easter weekend there will also be revised summer timetables introduced on the following services:
- 856 Northallerton – Leyburn – Hawes
- 864 Bradford – Ilkley – Skipton – Malham
- 873 Ilkley – Bolton Abbey – Skipton
- 874 Wetherby – Leeds – Ilkley – Grassington – Buckden
Other Sunday services are set to begin in May with the 831 and 832 on Sunday, May 5. Details of other services restarting in May are not yet available.
Much of the Sunday DalesBus network is dependent on voluntary fundraising by the Dales and Bowland Community Interest Company.
Details of the Summer Sunday services are available here.
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Harrogate to Skipton bus suspended due to Kex Gill work
The Saturday DalesBus 59 service between Harrogate and Skipton has been suspended due to the closure of the A59 at Kex Gill.
The service had been following a lengthy diversion around Ilkley after North Yorkshire Council suddenly closed the road last month due to a cracked verge.
But the Dales and Bowland Community Interest Company, which operates the DalesBus, has now called a halt to it.
It said in a statement:
“We’re sorry to advise that DalesBus 59 is currently suspended during the closure of the A59 at Kex Gill for emergency repairs.
“Very few people used the service during the diversion via Ilkley, and the diversionary route is now subject to additional roadworks and delays at Manor Park from March 18.
“We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused. A full service will resume every Saturday as soon as the road reopens.”
The DalesBus had been taking a diverted route via Otley and Ilkley, and stopped calling at Blubberhouses or Bolton Bridge.
The closed road at Kex Gill.
The A59 is the main route between Harrogate and Skipton. It is not expected to reopen until after Easter and work is unlikely to begin before the end of March.
In its latest update last week, Karl Battersby, the council’s corporate director of environment, said:
“We are currently finalising the programme for the repair scheme, which will include sheet piling and backfilling, to address the slippage and reduce further movement of the carriageway.
“This will involve driving long sheets of interlocking steel into the ground to create a continuous structural wall which provides strength and stability. Once this has been completed, we will be backfilling the excavated area between the sheet piles and the road.
“When we have the final programme and timescales, we will endeavour to update road users.”
This has been met with frustrations from motorists and residents.
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