FreeCityBus or FreeTownBus is a family of zero-fare bus services which are operated in the centres of several cities and towns in the English county of West Yorkshire.
The services operate as FreeCityBus in the city of Wakefield and as FreeTownBus in the towns of Huddersfield and Dewsbury.
Although in 2018, Tetley's Coaches won the tender for the Service using 3 brand new Optare Solo SR vehicles.
[11] Initially the scheme was run as a 6-month trial, but in April 2009 it was announced that the service would become permanent having attracted more than 4 times the expected number of passengers.
[12] In November 2009, it was announced that the 1 millionth passenger had been carried on the Bradford service,[1] and 1.5 million had been reached by June 2010.
From launch, the service was run by First West Yorkshire; operations passed to Ladies Only Travel in April 2014, using the same three buses and timetable.
[1][15] It is being funded by Metro, Kirklees Council and Sainsbury's supermarket, and used two buses,[2] which were operated by Star Travel.