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This is a route-map template for West Midlands bus route 50, a bus route in the United Kingdom.. For a key to symbols, see {{bus route legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Route 50 was introduced by Birmingham City Transport between the City Centre and Maypole in October 1949 to replace a withdrawn tram route. [1] It was supplemented by route 49 which ran as far as Moseley or Kings Heath (via Leopold Street rather than Bradford Street) and route 48 which ran Gooch Street, Clevedon Road and Salisbury Road to Moseley then Alcester Road to the Maypole.
To the north east of the city, the East Leeds Orbital Route being constructed by Balfour Beatty will take the Outer Ring Road away from existing residential areas and facilitate development of land as part of an East Leeds Extension project. [15] Guided bus routes using kerb guidance operate on parts of the A61 (Scott Hall Road) and A64 (York ...
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. [3]
The Leeds FreeCityBus service began on 30 January 2006 and was the first zero-fare bus service in West Yorkshire, [1] this was followed by similar services in Huddersfield, Wakefield, Bradford and Dewsbury. The services are designed to link passengers to the bus and railway stations, shops and other locations.
Mass transit systems have been considered in the region before, mostly focussing on Leeds, which had a Supertram project gaining royal assent in 1993 - conventional tramways existed in Leeds up until 1959. [1] The route was to have proceeded north from a point near to the old M621/M1 motorway junction [note 2] into central Leeds as route 1 ...
In May 2014, the routes were rebranded by Yorkshire Tiger as Flying Tiger and new Optare Versa buses were introduced. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] On 3 July 2017, new Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC buses were introduced on route 737 and 747 alongside the previous Optare Versa vehicles which continued to operate mainly on service 757.
In December 2024, rival operator Reliance announced that all four of their public service routes (30, 31X, 40 and 74), as well as two school routes, will be sold to and taken over by Transdev on 19 January 2025. Eleven buses were also included in the sale. The buses and routes subsequently began operation with Transdev under the York & Country ...