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Old March 2nd 19, 09:39 PM posted to uk.transport.london
John Williamson John Williamson is offline
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On 02/03/2019 20:47, Roland Perry wrote:
But a bus an hour is enough to go out for the day - after all that's the
service on a great deal of the railways (outside of very big cities).


The problem in many villages is that the only buses you see are either
school contract vehicles, which do a run in to town in the morning and
come back out at about 4 pm, or a weekly service, which is usually on
market day, and lets you stay in town for three hours or so to do your
shopping.

Government cutbacks are now putting the weekly services under threat, as
the subsidies they rely on as "socially necessary services" are optional
and are being withdrawn all over England because councils can't afford them.

Other services that are going are ones in the suburbs outside core
hours, so the last bus which used to be at 23:00 or even later, now runs
at 20:00, or 21:00 on a Saturday.

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Tciao for Now!

John.