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Bus operator to axe 14 services
The biggest bus operator in Wales announces it will axe 14 services and reduce eight others as it cuts its fleet by 10%.
UK Cuts to bus subsidies could leave the vulnerable 'stranded'
Cuts in bus subsidies are "socially regressive" and threaten to leave elderly people stranded say campaigners and opposition politicians.
Friday, 18 April 2014
BBC News
- Luton and Dunstable busway figures 41% of those forecast"The bankers" are to blame for passenger numbers on the Luton and Dunstable guided busway being 41% of those forecast, the council has said.
- Bus operator to axe 14 servicesThe biggest bus operator in Wales announces it will axe 14 services and reduce eight others as it cuts its fleet by 10%.
Channel 4 News
- UK Cuts to bus subsidies could leave the vulnerable 'stranded'Cuts in bus subsidies are "socially regressive" and threaten to leave elderly people stranded say campaigners and opposition politicians.
The Independent
- Bus subsidies slashed leaving less-used routes to close or cut back Unprofitable bus routes are being scrapped or scaled back because of deep cuts in support from councils whose budgets are being squeezed, new figures disclose today.
Daily Record
- Bus driver who took both hands off wheel to check takings while doing 60mph on M8 is to face traffic commissioner probe TRAFFIC commissioner Joan Aitken has applauded the passenger who filmed the driver on the Edinburgh-Glasgow service, as we revealed yesterday.
Wales Online
- Wales' biggest bus operator axes services and downsizes fleet by 10% Stagecoach, which runs almost 400 vehicles in Wales and employs 900, blaming
Yorkshire Post
- Bus subsidies ‘cut by up to 55pc’Bus subsidies across England have been slashed by as much as 55 per cent by councils, according to figures uncovered by Labour.
Burnley Express
- £½m spend on key X43 bus route NEARLY £500,000 is set to be spent improving the main bus corridor between Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale.
East Anglian Daily Times
- Suffolk: Rural bus services in county suffer huge cut in subsidies – LabourSubsidies for rural bus services in Suffolk saw some of the biggest cuts in the country over the last four years according to new figures compiled by the Labour Party.
Peterborough Telegraph
- Anger over rise in weekly cost of bus ticket without SmartcardBus passengers in Peterborough have spoken of their anger after weekly fares rose by 50p - despite being told the tickets’ cost was being frozen.
Other Regional Press
- Catch The Bus Week: North East Lincolnshire motorists encouraged to ditch their cars to reduce carbon emissions IF EVERYONE switched just one car trip a month to a bus, that would be one billion fewer car journeys on the roads and a saving of two-million tonnes of CO2.
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