We're delighted to announce that from Sunday 19 January, Transdev will be adding our services to the York & Country family.
York & country will take over the 30, 30X, 30XS, 30SE, 31X and 40 which link York to the picturesque market towns of Easingwold and Thirsk through villages such as Tollerton, Alne, Huby and Sutton-on-the-Forest. Transdev will also be running the 155R and 162R school buses.
Times will be similar to the current ones, except for some trips which start and finish at Reliance depot - these will no longer run. Transdev will share more details on timetables as soon as they can.
You'll still see our familiar Reliance green and cream buses for now, but you'll start to see blue York & Country buses in the New Year.
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Interesting phrasing. Are Transdev buying out Reliance outright, part of it or have they merely come to an agreement to take over the routes?
I note also that Transdev's short hop tickets are significanlty more expensive than those of Reliance at a whopping £2.50 post-£2-fare-cap. This will go down with like a lead zeppelin for people who make journeys from the South end of Sowerby to Thirsk, of which there are often a few non concessionary passengers, and they've likely priced themselves out of this market. But there may be a potential silver lining in that a better resourced company may be able to properly invest in services in a way that Reliance have struggled to, initially the timetables are worse, but we'll have to wait and see what happens long term, Transdev are usually pretty good at providing a fairly comprehensive service in other areas they serve commercially.