A new night bus service is being launched to help ensure clubbers in Thanet get home safely after a night out.The service is being funded and has been organised by the Thanet Community Safety Partnership, a group of organisations which aims to make Thanet a safer place to live, work and visit. It will be operated by Eastonways and there will be a police presence on the bus. The bus will have posters on the front and sides, advertising that it is the night bus.
Operating on Friday and Saturday nights between 11pm and 3am, the service will start on Friday 17 July and will run until Saturday 5 September. All journeys anywhere in Thanet will cost £2 with the routes starting and finishing at Queens Road in Broadstairs.
There will be stops across the area, including Broadstairs station, St. Peter's, Northdown Road, Margate seafront, Cecil Square in Margate, Westwood, Staner Court in Ramsgate, and Ramsgate Harbour. Additionally, the bus can be flagged down anywhere along the route.
Community Safety Coordinator Jessica Bailey said: "One of our key concerns is to ensure that those who are enjoying a night out across Thanet are able to get home safely. The night bus service will give them a safe and low cost way of ensuring that. We've put the funding into this scheme, because we think it's something that will really help to keep people safe and hopefully reduce the potential for crime. However, it's something that we're doing on a trial basis and we now need people to use it, otherwise we won't be able to continue with the service, if the demand isn't there."
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