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Will LANTA Offer Evening Bus Service to Hellertown from Musikfest 2016?

Musikfest 2016–the largest free music festival in the country–will soon open for its 33rd year in Bethlehem, and as usual many Saucon Valley residents will attend the nine-day event.

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Musikfest 2016–the largest free music festival in the country–will soon open for its 33rd year in Bethlehem, and as usual many Saucon Valley residents will attend the nine-day event that features concerts, vendors and food and drink.

Since alcohol is served at the fest–which will be held from Friday, Aug. 5 to Sunday, Aug. 14 at venues throughout the city–using public transportation to get to and from it is perennially popular with many members of the public.

In years gone by the Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANTA) offered daily nighttime shuttle service to Hellertown along its Route 215, which terminates at the Creekside Marketplace (Giant) shopping center on Rt. 412.

More recently, however, LANTA has eliminated much of that nighttime service, reducing it to a limited number of runs on weekends only.

This year, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, LANTA will provide two additional southbound departures from the Broad and Guetter streets terminal in downtown Bethlehem to the Creekside Marketplace at 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., according to the LANTA website’s Musikfest section.

“No additional service will be added to any other LANtaBus route other than what is detailed below, however, the Operations Department will station a supervisor at Broad and Guetter each night to monitor heavy demand situations,” the website states. “Buses will be held in reserve and will be dispatched to address any instances of overcrowding on the regularly scheduled trips.”

The last regularly scheduled LANTA bus bound for Bethlehem leaves Creekside Marketplace at 6:15 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and arrives at the Broad and Guetter bus terminal at 6:40 p.m., according to the current bus timetable.

To download the free LANTA BusTracker app for Android, click here. To download the free LANTA app for iPhone, click here.

To download the free Musikfest app for iPhone, click here. To download the free Musikfest app for Android, click here.

A map of the southern part of LANTA's Route 215, which provides bus service from downtown Bethlehem to the Hellertown area.

A map of the southern part of LANTA’s Route 215, which provides bus service from downtown Bethlehem to the Hellertown area.

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Josh Popichak

Josh Popichak is the owner, publisher and editor of Saucon Source. A Lehigh Valley native, he's covered local news since 2005 and previously worked for Berks-Mont News and AOL/Patch. Contact him at josh@sauconsource.com.

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