(24 Jan 2014, 3:32 pm)tyresmoke wrote http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/media/25641...ouncil.pdf
North Yorkshire County Council have agreed that cuts to bus services should go ahead as planned, to save £2.2m out of their £5.6m budget.
It will see major reductions across the whole area - although talks are ongoing with operators to try and provide as much as possible commercially, which I am sure parts of the network can be. Eddie Brown's Ripon City services for example maybe commercially viable.
I think a lot more could be done to promote the more rural services if they could all link up. Dales & District's Explorer ticket for example could be expanded into an all operator ticket valid across North Yorkshire. The operators themselves could set up (via the council, obviously) some linking ticket options like onto the 36 for example?!
In other news, TM Travel in Sheffield are about to take delivery of 3 new Optare Versa's for service 30 Sheffield-Crystal Peaks.
Trying not to get too political here, but if a company can run a service without subsidy once cuts take place, why cant they run it commercially prior to the cuts?
It really does my head in.
Either way, hopefully solutions can be found going forward for passengers across Yorkshire.