FreeCityBus
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The Huddersfield FreeTownBus
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| Parent | West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive |
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| Founded | January 2006 |
| Headquarters | Leeds, West Yorkshire |
| Service area | West Yorkshire |
| Destinations |
Bradford Wakefield Huddersfield Dewsbury |
| Operator | First West Yorkshire, Star Travel, Tiger Blue |
| Website | www.wymetro.com |
FreeCityBus or FreeTownBus is a family of zero-fare bus services which are operated in the centres of several cities and towns in the English county of West Yorkshire. The services operate as FreeCityBus in the cities of Wakefield and as FreeTownBus in the towns of Huddersfield and Dewsbury. The service is run under contract to Metro Connect. FreeCityBus had also operated in Leeds between 2006 and 2011 before being replaced by LeedsCityBus in April 2011 then joining onto route 5 in 2016 and in Bradford before being replaced by Bradford City Bus in 2016.
Since the first service began in 2006, over 11 million passengers have used the free bus services.
The Leeds service began on 30 January 2006 and was the first bus service in West Yorkshire to use this format and was operated by First West Yorkshire. Metro renamed the service LeedsCityBus and introduced a flat 50-pence fare for each journey, with the service running a six-month trial period from 1 April 2011.
This service began on 30 October 2006, after the success of the Leeds service earlier that year. In under six months the Huddersfield FreeTownBus had carried over 100,000 passengers. This service was originally introduced on the basis of a nine-month trial with two buses. The contract was later extended until 2011 depending on funding. A Boxing Day service was introduced in 2007, following funding from Metro, although this has since been dropped after one year.
The current operator of this service is Tiger Blue, which is part of Yorkshire Tiger.
Unlike the Leeds and Wakefield services, the service makes a complete circle without backtracking, and runs in an anti-clockwise direction. the Huddersfield FreeTownBus links the town's railway station with the bus station, the university and the shops and markets.
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