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Councils slash tendered service spending

­BUSES

18 December 2013
 

Bus services are being withdrawn from many parts of rural Britain as councils make deep cuts to tendered service budgets.

The scale of the cutbacks is revealed in a new report, Buses in crisis, prepared by public transport lobby group the Campaign for Better Transport. 

Southend, Darlington and Hartlepool councils no longer support any bus services, says the CBT, and Worcestershire (LTT 29 Nov) and Cumbria are consulting on axing their entire tendered service budget too – £3m...

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