More park and ride services offered

LEICESTER Park and Ride is running extra services throughout December – meaning shoppers and sightseers can catch a bus into the city centre every day in December except Christmas Day.

The extra services will be running on all five Sundays in December. On those Sundays (December 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, buses will be running every 15 minutes between 10am-5.30pm from the sites at Meynell’s Gorse, Enderby and Birstall.

In addition, BID Leicester is funding extended Park and Ride services so that customers can make the most of late-night Christmas shopping, sightseeing and family days out.

Extended services will be running until 9pm every Monday to Saturday from December 9 to December 23, and the buses will run every half hour from 7pm-9pm. BID Leicester is also funding an additional service on Boxing Day (Thursday, December 26) from 10am5.30pm.

More details of the additional services are available from www. choosehowyoumove. co.uk/parkandride

Coun Blake Pain, Leicestershire County Council’s cabinet member for environment and transport, said: “Whether it’s for a shopping trip, a day out with the family, visiting the big wheel and ice rink in Jubilee Square or just relaxing with friends, the extra services throughout December will make it easier.”

There will be no Park and Ride service on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day and normal service pattern resumes on Thursday, January 2.