Yellow Buses and the Bournemouth 7s festival have been working together for a couple of years, this year however represents the biggest mobilisation to date.
Yellow Buses provided an exclusive network of local bus shuttle services to and from the festival site. Enabling those attending to get to the event during the day and return in the early hours. The link is below, and the map is at the bottom of the page.
https://www.bournemouth7s.com/shuttle-bus
Buses ran from around 1000 throughout the day and then provided regular shuttles from the site back across the conurbation until the early hours of the event last weekend on Friday/Saturday 3rd/4th June.
Simon Newport, Commercial Director for Yellow Buses said, ‘We are really pleased to be working in partnership with Bournemouth 7s. This is a great local event. We expect to carry over 3000 people over the two nights mainly in the early hours.’
Simon Newport said, ‘As a bus business we specialise in mass transit, including events such as this which require a largescale movement of people over a short period. We aim to have up to 20 vehicles operating up to 3am getting people home. We will also be the last man standing ensuring that no one is left behind’
Craig Mathie, Managing Director of Bournemouth 7s, ‘It is great to work with local company that understand the requirements of the local community, and the ability to deploy a large number of double deck buses to get people home easily.’
Details of the bus tickets available can be found on the Bournemouth 7s website and also on the Yellow Buses App.
Customers travelling do not need cash, all our buses are contactless, and our team of staff will be on site selling tickets at the site bus station. Customers can also purchase tickets in advance on our app.
About Yellow Buses and Yellow Coaches: Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 110 buses and Yellow Coaches operates 16 coaches and mini coaches with more than 330 local staff.
The company carries just under 14m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch; East Dorset and West Hampshire.
Yellow Buses is the South Coast’s largest independent bus and coach operator, having been acquired from French transport group, RATP in July 2019.
The business is marketed as being ‘locally owned, locally operated’.
For more information contact David Squire at [email protected]
About Bournemouth 7s
This locally owned and managed event has grown in recent years to become a major sporting and music festival.
More information at: www.bournemouth7s.com