A new bus service launches next month that will connect Lancaster with Garstang and Knott End.
Improvements to services between Lancaster and Knott End-on-Sea will take effect from August 27 following a decision by Lancashire County Council to utilise funding from its Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) and Local Transport Fund.
New Service 88 will be introduced between Lancaster and Knott End via Garstang, to operate in conjunction with existing Service 89 between Lancaster and Knott End, enhancing the overall service frequency across much of the route.
Kirkby Lonsdale Coaches will operate these services on behalf of Lancashire County Council.
The services will operate between Lancaster and Knott End via Glasson Dock, Cockerham, Garstang (88), Nateby (88), Pilling and Preesall.
The combined Monday to Saturday service frequency will operate approximately hourly across the end-to-end route, with the unique sections approximately two-hourly.
The changes restore the links between Glasson, Cockerham and Garstang as well as between Garstang, Nateby, Preesall and Knott End.
The new timetable will also see the restoration of a Sunday service between Lancaster and Knott End, which was lost when the county council cut its own budget for bus service support in 2016.
Lancaster MP, Cat Smith, has welcomed the news, after campaigning over recent years for better public transport.
‘’After years of campaigning for better bus services across the area, I am pleased that at the end of August a new Number 88 service linking Knott End, Garstang and Lancaster will be introduced,’’ she said.
‘’This will create fantastic opportunities to connect communities and enable people to work, study and play in our part of the world.’’


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