{"id":869141,"date":"2026-04-03T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/869141\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:41:15","slug":"new-operator-to-run-under-threat-horsforth-to-pudsey-bus-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/869141\/","title":{"rendered":"New operator to run under-threat Horsforth to Pudsey bus service\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bus service which had been facing an uncertain future following the collapse of its operating company has been saved.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/westleedsdispatch.com\/horsforth-to-pudsey-service-affected-as-yorkshire-buses-folds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported earlier this week<\/a>, Yorkshire Buses\u00a0closed due to rising costs, leaving a number of services across Leeds without a company to run them.<\/p>\n<p>This included off-peak number 30 service, which runs from Horsforth to Pudsey, via Calverley and Woodhall.<\/p>\n<p>West Yorkshire Combined Authority has now confirmed that service 30 will be taken over by<a href=\"https:\/\/letherstravel.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Lethers Travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They will begin operations from Tuesday (7 April).<\/p>\n<p>This is a short contract until the next scheduled service change date in July, when a long-term contract will be issued.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored content<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-18.31.46-638x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164818\"  \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnybankmills.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.sunnybankmills.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bus service which had been facing an uncertain future following the collapse of its operating company has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,210180,393,4884,209390,1860,101522,16,15],"class_list":["post-869141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-leeds","tag-britain","tag-calverley","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-horsforth","tag-leeds","tag-pudsey","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}