Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. The operator said areas including Wakefield , Leeds , Pontefract and Ossett will be affected in the latest changes planned from the start of the new year . Further cuts to evening services are also planned , along with changes to some school services.
Advertisement Advertisement A statement issued by Arriva on Friday (November 22) said: “Despite recruiting more than 300 new drivers since the start of the year, these measures are essential to improve services for customers given the ongoing shortage of drivers “Following a comprehensive review of the usage of every journey on the network, some of the least used journeys will no longer run, and some have been amended. The operator confirmed the following services will be affected from January 5: – Service 122 will change to run between Wakefield and Ossett only. Another bus operator provides services between Ossett and Gawthorpe covering the section that Arriva will no longer be serving.
Because this bus operator does not provide a service on Sundays or evenings, Arriva will continue running to Gawthorpe at these times. Advertisement Advertisement – Service 135/136 Pontefract to Chequerfield will now run every 30 minutes rather than every 15 minutes. – Service 164 will now connect Leeds and Selby every hour (c.