page_title: West Yorkshire Metro
section_title: 'My bus' school bus services
hierarchical_section_title: West Yorkshire Metro / MetroBus History / 'My bus' school bus services
caption_attribution_description: English: First West Yorkshire bus 68612 (reg. YK55 AUA), a 2005 BMC 220 Condor School Bus, pictured operating route S32, which runs from the village of Wilsden to Bingley Grammar School in the town of Bingley, in West Yorkshire. It's wearing the yellow livery and branding of the multi-operator Metro (WYPTE) Mybus dedicated school bus scheme. Having been operated by First since new, in August 2012 and bus passed to Transdev Keighley &amp; District after they won the contract for the route (a previous version wrongly claimed this bus belonged to CT Plus, one of the other operators in the Mybus scheme).
context_page_description: Metro is the passenger information brand used by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in England. It was formed on 1 April 1974 as the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive at the same time as the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. The Metro brand has been used from the outset, and since the formal abolition of the WYPTE on 1 April 2014, it has been the public facing name of the organisation. The transport authority of West Yorkshire, responsible for setting transport policy, is the West Yorkshire Combined Authority. The WYCA is also responsible for delivery of transport policies.
context_section_description: My bus is a school bus service provided by West Yorkshire Metro with certain features which set it apart from normal school transport services in the United Kingdom:
  a dedicated fleet of school buses (rather than ordinary transit buses or coaches borrowed from other duties); additional use of these vehicles is limited to school and young-person focussed activities and all have low floors and seat belts
  drivers with enhanced DBS checks, who permanently assigned to each route, assisted on some routes by volunteer escorts
  a bus seat is permanently assigned to each student
  in-school education campaign to support the service
  The service, using buses painted yellow with coordinated My bus branding gained significant mode shift: 64% of primary school users were previously driven by car. Under this scheme, these buses were not allowed to be used for non-school purposes.
  West Yorkshire Metro claims benefits from 'My bus' ranging from reductions in car use, traffic congestion, air pollution, traffic accidents, social exclusion, truancy and late student arrivals and improvements to education, safety for pedestrians and cyclists, integration of people with special needs and children's experiences of public transport.
  My bus contractors: City Travel, First Student UK (First Calderdale & Huddersfield, First Leeds), Halifax Joint Committee, HCT Group, Keighley Bus Company, Rollinson Safeway, Tiger Blue and TLC Travel
caption: My bus school bus in Bingley
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