"These unprecedented cuts will be especially disastrous for people on low incomes and could effectively mean the death of rural bus services"
Manchester,UK -Gov Today, by Zoe Le Grand -9 Feb 2011: -- More than two-thirds of councils in England are planning major cuts to their bus budgets, it is claimed... According to the Campaign for Better Transport, which is launching the Save our Buses campaign, some councils intend to end all subsidised services. The Local Government Association also warned many bus routes would disappear as a result of government cutbacks... But the government said nearly 80% of services outside London were commercially run and so not affected. As part of the Save our Buses campaign, data was collected from every local authority in England... It found 13 county councils were planning cutbacks of more than £1m, including Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Devon. Many rural, hospital, evening and weekend bus services were at risk...(Picture from t0.gstatic: Bus in rural Staffordshire Buses are a more popular form of transport)
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