Tuesday 18 August 2009

Calderdale's isolated village of Norwood Green is to retain its three-day-a-week bus service thanks to funding from Metro.

Councillors at Metro's August Tendered Services Working Group meeting agreed to continue to subsidise First to run the 226 service until October 2011 at a cost of just over £10,000 per year.

Service 226 provides two 15-minute journeys each way between Norwood Green, Hipperholme and Halifax Bus Station on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, leaving the village at 9.30am and 12.10pm and returning from Halifax at 11.50am and 2.20pm.

"Local people fought hard for the service in 2006 when Arriva withdrew their operations in the area," said Metro's Calderdale Spokesperson Cllr Keith Watson. "The service now carries an average of almost nine passengers every trip at a cost of £1.90 per journey and provides a highly cost-effective means of meeting the community's local transport needs,"

"I hope local people will continue to support the service by using it regularly between now and October 2011 when we will review it again."

Link to the timetable for bus service 226