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First Leeds is one of the bus companies serving the area of West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of FirstGroup, a company operating transport services in the British Isles and in North America. The company operates within the area covered by Metro, a public body responsible for helping to co-ordinate public transport services in the West Yorkshire area. ==History== Following bus deregulation in 1986, the MetroBus (the West Yorkshire PTE) fleet was renamed Yorkshire Rider Ltd. In October 1988 Yorkshire Rider was bought by its management for £23 million. Yorkshire Rider was then bought by Badgerline, a Bristol-based bus company, in 1994. Following the merger of Badgerline with GRT Ltd to form First Bus in 1995, its services were rebranded: * Leeds City Link – covering the Leeds area with depots in Hunslet and Bramley * Calderline – covering Halifax and Calderdale with garages in Halifax and Todmorden * Kingfisher Huddersfield – covering Kirklees with garages at Old Field House Lane * Bradford Traveller – covering Bradford with a depot at Bowling Back Lane These names were later replaced with First Leeds, First Calderline, First Huddersfield and First Bradford. Until recently, First Quickstep, was also part of the First group. It was based at the same Kirkstall Road depot as First Leeds but was a separate organization. It is now a part of First Leeds and it runs the FreeCityBus service. In July 2005 the company took over Morley-based Black Prince Buses, a large independent company. The Morley depot was closed down and the fleet was sold, with the exception of a couple of single-deckers and the large fleet of Scania N113 double-deckers. On 18 May 2008 the Kirkstall Road depot was closed after 111 years of public transport use and operations moved to a new complex in Hunslet.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New £10million First Bus HQ in Leeds Will Help Tackle Road Congestion )〕 The site was planned to be redeveloped in 2008 as part of Leeds City Council's Kirkstall Road Renaissance Area project.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kirkstall Road Renaissance Area – Planning Framework )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「First Leeds」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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