Nearly 20% more people travelling by bus in Hertfordshire thanks to Bus Service Improvement Plan

The £29.7million Department for Transport fund has led to significant improvements across Hertfordshire’s local bus network including new services, more frequent buses as well as the launch of new schemes such as our uber-style on demand bus service HertsLynx, which currently operates in north and east Hertfordshire and Dacorum.

The latest offer in this package of measures, is the launch of a new bus ticket type, ‘Intalink Connect’. This scheme can reduce the cost of travelling by bus around our county compared to buying individual tickets for each part of a passenger’s journey.

Intalink Connect tickets can be bought from as little as £2.50 a day and £9.50 a week if bought in conjunction with a Hertfordshire SaverCard, or from £5 a day and £19 a week without.

In addition, the Adult SaverCard has now had a discount offer increase from 15% to 50% and this is available to anyone between the ages of 26 and 59. This now matches the discount available with a Young Person’s SaverCard (ages 11 to 25) and Senior SaverCard (age 60+).

Full terms and conditions and details of the bus tickets can be found on the Intalink website:

• Adult SaverCard - Increase to discount for Adult SaverCard - Intalink
• Intalink Connect - New and improved ticket scheme to replace Explorer and BUSnet - Intalink

Cllr Phil Bibby Executive Member for Highways and Transport, Hertfordshire County Council, said: 

“It’s great to see that our Bus Service Improvement Plan is delivering tangible savings and improvements for bus travellers no matter where they live in Hertfordshire. We are keen to build on this initial success to encourage more of our residents to give bus travel a try or make it part of their usual routine for business or leisure. Working with our partners we remain committed to making Hertfordshire a cleaner, greener and healthier county and public transport is at the heart of those plans.”