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Rossendale Transport's
Additional Schoolday Only Services
 In addition to our mainstream network of services, we
also provide some additional journeys on these routes and many additional services that operated during term-time only.
These are generally provided in order to supplement our existing routes in order to provide
additional capacity in order to cope with the additional demand for transport created by school and college
students travelling at peak times to and from their place of study.
In all cases, these routes are open and available for use
by any member of the public and standard adult or concessionary fares apply. Unfortunately, as many of
these additional journeys are provided by us under contract to local authorities, it is not always possible
for our range of Rossendale Rover tickets to be used and we would advise anyone to check their tickets
validity before travelling. Usually, multi-operator tickets such as the System One in Greater Manchester are
available (where applicable) and the best option for customers using these services regularly would often be
to take advantage of the discounted travel schemes. Please check your
ticket's availability before purchasing.
Unfortunately, at
the moment, we are not always able to provide fully-accessible vehicles
on some of these
additional routes
/
journeys. Passenger demand for certain journeys
also means that
double deck buses
are used on some routes
and these are currently not accessible
to all passengers.
We have been
investing heavily in our fleet over
recent years and shall continue to do so and now only a very small
percentage of the buses in our fleet
do
not provide step-free access.
Most schools in our main operating area of Bury, Rochdale and Rossendale
areas are served by our buses
as
some schools
further afield in Blackburn, Burnley, Manchester, Middleton and Todmorden.
Most of the buses
used on schoolday only journeys are vehicles dedicated to the routes.
Most of our buses now feature
CCTV equipment
which has noticably
improved safety and behaviour of schoolchildren travelling on these routes and
has helped improve the behaviour of the pupils carried. It should be
stressed that bad behaviour is really
only a problem with a minority of school-age passengers and we work in
co-operation with Lancashire County
Council's
Safer Travel Unit
and
GMPTE
to improve the travelling environment for all concerned by
ensuring pupils misbehaving are disciplined in school accordingly.
Click Here for all schoolday only
services provided by Rossendale Transport
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