A new bus schedule has been pushed back two weeks from its promised start date of next week.

The Department of Public Transportation announced yesterday that the winter 2019 schedule planned to start on Monday would now be introduced on January 21.

The department said that the revised start date “will ensure that all relevant stakeholders and the general public are well informed of the scheduling change”.

Roger Todd, the director of the DPT, added: “The production and dissemination of information for the public is key to this process and involves multiple entities and vendors.

“With due consideration for the public and the time required to properly communicate the new schedule, we are taking time to ensure this is done effectively.”

The schedule will be available on the Government’s website from Monday. The DPT added that print copies of the schedule will be available at the Central Terminal in Hamilton and “other key locations” from January 14.

A spokesman for the transport ministry told The Royal Gazette last month that the full schedule would be released “before the new year”.

He added: “The data is currently in its raw form and will be aesthetically modified for public consumption.”

The spokesman claimed that the new schedule would cost less to run than the old timetable, but could not say how much would be saved.

He said: “I don’t have this figure. It will take some time to quantify.”

Transport minister Zane DeSilva announced the new schedule last month.

He unveiled the schedule flanked by Mr Todd and Chris Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Industrial Union.