A new on demand bus service is set to launch across Rushcliffe next month which will help residents connect to East Midlands Airport. Following trials in Mansfield and Ollerton, the new Nottsbus On Demand service, which is due to start on May 15, is the next phase of a transport roll out, based on demand, led by Kinchbus, trentbarton’s sister company.
The service will be operating in villages including East Leake, Gotham, Thrumpton, Stanford-on-Soar, Sutton Bonington, and Kegworth between 7am and midnight, seven days a week, after the old Skylink service was withdrawn from the area. This new service, which will replace the 865 service, will connect communities to Clifton South NET Park and Ride, East Midlands Parkway railway station and East Midlands Airport.
Also included in the zone are the University of Nottingham’s Sutton Bonington Campus, the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre as well as the Pegasus Business Park, Segro Logistics Park and the DHL depot. Nottsbus On Demand doesn’t have a fixed route or follow a timetable, meaning that passengers can travel anywhere between bus stops and designated points in the operating zone, where there is not already a scheduled bus service running.
