The night bus is returning to Thanet this Christmas to help ensure those enjoying the festivities get home safely after a night out.The bus will be back on the road on Friday 10 December, Friday 17 December, Friday 24 December (Christmas Eve) and Friday 31 December (New Year’s Eve).
The bus will circle Thanet five times during the evening, with the first bus departing at 11pm from Ramsgate Harbour. The bus will then leave the harbour again at midnight, 1am and 2am, with the final departure at 3am. It will follow a route taking people along Boundary Road through to Queens Road in Broadstairs, Northdown Road in Cliftonville and Cecil Square in Margate. The bus then travels on an extended route to Westgate, stopping at the Hussar Hotel in Garlinge, and Birchington Square, before heading past Manston and then back to Ramsgate Harbour along the London Road. The bus will only stop if people are waiting at the stops or if someone rings the bell to request the stop.
Depending how busy the bus is, it may run slightly late, but will never leave a stop before the designated times, which are:
Ramsgate
On the hour
On the hour
Broadstairs
Quarter past the hour
Quarter past the hour
Northdown Road, Cliftonville
Twenty past the hour
Twenty past the hour
Margate
Twenty five past the hour
Twenty five past the hour
Westgate
Half past the hour
Half past the hour
Birchington
Twenty five to the hour
Prices are fixed at £2.00 per person, wherever you go for one journey. The bus is a hail and ride service, which means that you can flag the bus down anywhere along the route and it will stop, so long as it is safe to do so.
The money to put on the service, which was first successfully trialled in the summer of 2009, has come from Kent Police and the service is being operated by Eastonways. There will be a police presence on the bus, if anyone has any concerns around their night out.
Cllr. Chris Wells, Cabinet Member for Community Services, said: “It’s great to see the night bus returning to Thanet, thanks to funding from the police. The area has a thriving nightlife and we want to provide a cheap and easy way of getting home, so that people won’t be tempted to walk home. When it last ran in summer 2009, the night bus proved to be a great success, helping to reduce violence and criminal damage. In total, there were 126 less violent incidents in Thanet, which is an excellent result.”
For more information, look out for the posters at bus stops and wallet sized cards in local pubs, visit http://www.thanetcommunitysafety.org.uk/ or search ‘Thanet Community Safety Partnership’ on Facebook.
Twenty five to the hour
Prices are fixed at £2.00 per person, wherever you go for one journey. The bus is a hail and ride service, which means that you can flag the bus down anywhere along the route and it will stop, so long as it is safe to do so.
The money to put on the service, which was first successfully trialled in the summer of 2009, has come from Kent Police and the service is being operated by Eastonways. There will be a police presence on the bus, if anyone has any concerns around their night out.
Cllr. Chris Wells, Cabinet Member for Community Services, said: “It’s great to see the night bus returning to Thanet, thanks to funding from the police. The area has a thriving nightlife and we want to provide a cheap and easy way of getting home, so that people won’t be tempted to walk home. When it last ran in summer 2009, the night bus proved to be a great success, helping to reduce violence and criminal damage. In total, there were 126 less violent incidents in Thanet, which is an excellent result.”
For more information, look out for the posters at bus stops and wallet sized cards in local pubs, visit http://www.thanetcommunitysafety.org.uk/ or search ‘Thanet Community Safety Partnership’ on Facebook.
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