Reading Buses will be running buses throughout the holiday period – except Christmas Day of course. That’s the message from the company as they release their Christmas timetables.
They say that most of the time between Christmas Eve and January 3 their services will be running to Saturday, Sunday or public holiday timetables.
“We have now finalised all our Christmas timetables for each route and have detailed information on our website www.reading-buses.co.uk,” said Reading Buses Marketing and Communications Manager Jake Osman.
“As Christmas gets ever closer, we know that our customers will want to check what their services will be doing over the festive period.
This is of course a time to visit family and friends and enjoy the delights of shopping and socialising and a time when travelling by bus will avoid parking and congestion problems – even allowing for a little over-indulging!”
On Christmas Eve, said Jake, most buses will be on normal service with an early finish around 7.00-8.00pm. The exceptions are emerald 5 and 6, purple 17, claret 21 and yellow 26 which have extra buses until around 11.00pm.
“There will be no buses on Christmas Day when all our employees will be having a well earned rest,” he announced.
On Boxing Day, there will be special service on the busiest routes from 9.00am until around 6.00pm to help families and bargain hunters get about.
On Monday December 27 most services will run to Sunday timetables; on Tuesday December 28 most services will be on their public holiday timetables; on Wednesday December 29, Thursday December 30 and Friday December 31 most services will run to their Saturday timetables.
On Saturday January 1 2022 most services will be on their public holiday timetables; on Sunday January 2 buses will be using their Sunday timetables; on Monday January 3, which is a public holiday in lieu of New Year’s Day, buses will run to their public holiday timetables.
Jake added: “There are some exceptions to the general service levels though – such as Mereoak park & ride and greenwave 50 which will be on normal service on 29, 30 and 31 December. So it’s best that customers check their services online, via the app or pick up a leaflet on our buses shortly.”