Save buses campaign launched as services slaughter is planned

The pressure group Campaign for Better Transport has launched a Save Our Buses campaign after it was revealed that more than two-thirds of the country’s councils plan to cut services after the Conservative-led coalition’s savage cuts in public spending.
Stephen Joseph, CBT’s chief executive, said 13 county councils – including Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Devon – are planning cuts of more than £1 million and some councils intend to end all subsidised services.

by Keith Richmond
Friday, February 11th, 2011

He said these cuts will hit the poorest and most vulnerable in our society the hardest.

Jon Trickett, Shadow Minister for Social Exclusion and Poverty, said: “People in rural and under-populated areas rely on bus services to get to work, school and college. Removing the subsidy from such services will hit those with the lowest incomes who may no longer be able to get to work, faced with no alternative forms of transport.

“I have asked the Secretary of State what assessment has been made of the impact on those with the lowest incomes and, particularly, the effect he expects these cuts to have on in-work poverty.”

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Keith Richmond is deputy editor of Tribune