TRADERS have joined forces with a local bus operator to provide a household delivery of timetables through much of the Eastleigh and Hedge End area.

A series of 11 timetable leaflets have been designed by Solent Blue Line to offer customised bus information for each district as part of the launch of its new Eastleigh bus network. The 80,000 full colour quality guides have been delivered door to door.

They tell prospective passengers about the £1 million investment in new easy access buses, times of buses to Eastleigh and Southampton, key adult single and weekly fares and local maps.

Solent Blue Line's operations director Peter Shelley says: "In other words the series of leaflets provide all the information a passenger needs to choose the bus.''