A new bus service is set to once again serve Wedderburn Road in Harrogate.
The X4, operated by Connexions, will offer two return services a day from Monday to Friday.
It will depart from Harrogate Bus Station to Wedderburn Road, via Wetherby Road, and will return to the bus station via Knaresborough Road.
The X4 will leave Harrogate at 10.30am and 1pm, and will return from Wedderburn Road at 10.42am and 1.12pm, Monday to Friday.
A Connexions spokesperson told the Stray Ferret the X4 service will begin operating on May 20.
They said, due to “registration reasons”, the service will be free to ride between May 20 and June 3. After that, the £2 bus fare cap will apply.
The spokesperson added:
“We wanted to give people in that area a service since they didn’t have one.
“I just hope as many people use it as possible to make sure it keeps running.”
The service is funded solely by Connexions, the spokesperson said.
The news comes after the 104 service, which ran between Wedderburn Road and Harrogate town centre, was scrapped in November 2018.
Nearby residents and councillors have since called for the service to be reinstated, as one local told the Stray Ferret the removal of the service was like a “slap in the face”.
Conservative MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, Andrew Jones, responded to the news:
“It has been many years since there was a bus service from Wedderburn Road into town. Local councillors and I tried repeatedly to persuade bus companies to re-instate a service.
“Whilst this is a low number of services per day I hope that residents are able to use the service and demonstrate to the operators that there is demand for the service to grow.”
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