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Free Town Centre Bus for Rotherham
Travelling around Rotherham Town Centre just got even easier with FreeBee, the new free town centre bus, launching on Monday 26 October.
To celebrate the new service, Travel South Yorkshire is teaming up with Rother FM on Monday to give the first rush of passengers an opportunity to win some great prizes just in time for Christmas, including chart CDs, iPods, Nintendo games consoles, and an LCD TV. Look out for the big buzzy bee in All Saints Square from 11am!
The service will run every 12 minutes from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday, and buses will run around the town centre from Rotherham Interchange via Rotherham Central Rail Station, the police station, Westgate, Canklow Road, the Town Hall, Wellgate, Clifton Park and the town centre markets, then returning to the Interchange before heading to Parkgate past St Anns Leisure Complex, and back to the Interchange.
The new FreeBee bus service will be operated by Powells, and will introduce the first fleet of environmentally-friendly Euro V buses to Rotherham. The launch in Rotherham follows the announcement that the hugely popular Sheffield FreeBee has recently carried its millionth passenger after launching just two years ago.
David Young, Director of Customer Experience at South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE) part of the Travel South Yorkshire partnership said: This is great news for Rotherham as it will give a wide range of people the chance to travel easily and for free around the town centre. FreeBee will transform the town centre offering, improving accessibility and connections for all transport users. On top of that, passengers on Monday will get the chance to win some fantastic prizes!
So get down to Rotherham town centre on Monday 26 October and join the buzz!
For more information on FreeBee, visit travelsouthyorkshire.com/freebee
