High Peak Buses providing extra journeys for key workers

High Peak Buses are introducing extra journeys on some of its routes for key workers and essential journeys to shops

Additional morning and afternoon trips will also help keyworkers’ children get to school.

A spokesman for the company said though it was operating a reduced service on most routes during coroanavirus lockdown, it was able to offer extra transfers.

The supplementary services will help people travelling from Buxton to Hartington and Ashbourne, New Mills and Glossop and Stockport and Manchester Airport.

Hayfield commuters will also benefit from a extra trip from Whaley Bridge to Macclesfield.

The extra journeys from Monday May 4 include the below:

Route 60: Hayfield – Whaley Bridge - Macclesfield. An earlier journey from Whaley Bridge to Macclesfield has been added Route 61: Buxton – New Mills - Glossop. An earlier journey southbound from Glossop to Hayfield has been added - this will connect with the 60 from Hayfield to New Mills to allow through travel beyond Hayfield Skyline199: Buxton – Stockport – Manchester Airport. There will be earlier and later journeys between Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith and Whaley Bridge as well as an earlier first journey from the airport and Stockport to Buxton and an extra early morning journey from Buxton to Stockport and the airport Route 442: Buxton – Hartington – Ashbourne. An afternoon return trip from Hartington to Buxton has been added to provide a later bus from Harpur Hill back to Buxton where it will continue as a route 185 to Fairfield to allow through travel across Buxton town centre

High Peak Buses Operations Manager, Nikos Ntalampiras, said: “I am very pleased to introduce the additional journeys on routes 60, 61, 199, 390 and 442 following feedback from customers.

“We always want all of our customers and every one of our colleagues to be safe and well, particularly when working and travelling with us.

“Our drivers, engineers, cleaners, dispatch staff, customer services colleagues and the rest of the frontline team are working hard and continue to do a fantastic job for you and for us under ever-changing circumstances.”

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For more more information about the additional journeys email [email protected], visit highpeakbuses.com, call 0116 410 5050 or check check Twitter and Facebook.

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