Yellow bus boost for city schools

The yellow buses are being rolled out across West Yorkshire

Pupils in Wakefield will be riding to school on the city's first US-style yellow buses from Monday.

The service is part of an £18.7m West Yorkshire-wide scheme run by Metro, the county's passenger transport executive.

The aim is to give children a safe form of transport and to reduce school-run traffic on the roads.

The first Wakefield schools to use the buses from Monday are Hemsworth High, St Joseph's Primary in Moorthorpe, South Elmsall and Carlton Junior.

Wakefield Council's school travel plan adviser Pete Steele said: "This is a very important development for school transport based on the American model.

"It will provide safer and more comfortable specialist transport for the district's pupils."

Metro eventually plans to roll out the yellow bus service around 300 schools across the Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield districts.