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| Service 89 will be joined by new service 88 to give more buses to Knott End |
Improvements to bus services between Lancaster and Knott End-on-Sea will take effect from 27th August following a decision by Lancashire County Council to utilise funding from its Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) and Local Transport Fund.
New Service 88 will be introduced
between Lancaster and Knott End via Garstang, to operate in conjunction with
existing Service 89 between Lancaster and Knott End, enhancing the overall
service frequency across much of the route. The services will operate
between Lancaster and Knott End via Glasson Dock, Cockerham, Garstang (88),
Nateby (88), Pilling and Preesall.
The combined Monday to Saturday
service frequency will operate approximately hourly across the end-to-end
route, with the unique sections approximately two-hourly
In a good example of
integration between school and public bus services, certain new Service 88
journeys will additionally serve Garstang Academy on schooldays, replacing
School Service 813 and partially replacing School Service 509 to improve
sustainability by incorporating those duplicated sections of route.
The changes will restore long-lost links between Glasson, Cockerham
and Garstang as well as between Garstang, Nateby, Preesall and Knott End, which
will be welcomed by local residents.
Sunday Buses
The new timetable will also see the restoration of a Sunday
service between Lancaster and Knott End, which was lost when the county council
cut its own budget for bus service support in 2016.
Kirkby Lonsdale Coaches will
continue to operate these services on behalf of Lancashire County Council.
After the proposed timetable was posted on this site the county council was contacted by passengers whose journeys were adversely affected by the changes.
Fortunately the council has been able to amend its proposals to take account of these issues and the UPDATED TIMETABLE is now on this link, with the journeys that have been changed highlighted in yellow.
A map and route description showing the new 88 and 89 routes is on this link