16 million miles of England’s bus routes axed

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Towns and cities are becoming increasingly cut off after losing more than half their bus services since 2010

Millions of people in England have been left marooned as cash-strapped councils have cut more than 90 per cent of bus services since 2010, i analysis has revealed.

The loss of services means that across the 10 worst-affected areas, a combined 16 million miles of bus routes have been axed.

Government and certain members of the public: We need to go greener and drive less!
Also government: let’s cut bus services and have public transport outside of London be too expensive and in some cases too inefficient to use.

Gotta love this government. I don’t want to drive but at this point I may as well learn how to drive.

This kind of thing gets me, turns me the wrong way.

Reply 1

Scotland Yard

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Huh, so the buses are getting the Beeching treatment now too. That's just so sad.

Reply 2

Talkative Toad

Volunteer Team

Original post by Scotland Yard

Huh, so the buses are getting the Beeching treatment now too. That's just so sad.

They've been getting it for a while I think unless I'm wrong.

Reply 3

Rakas21

Original post by Talkative Toad

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Towns and cities are becoming increasingly cut off after losing more than half their bus services since 2010
Millions of people in England have been left marooned as cash-strapped councils have cut more than 90 per cent of bus services since 2010, i analysis has revealed.
The loss of services means that across the 10 worst-affected areas, a combined 16 million miles of bus routes have been axed.
Government and certain members of the public: We need to go greener and drive less!
Also government: let’s cut bus services and have public transport outside of London be too expensive and in some cases too inefficient to use.
Gotta love this government. I don’t want to drive but at this point I may as well learn how to drive.
This kind of thing gets me, turns me the wrong way.

Most bus routes near rurality or late in the evenings are not profitable so this is not a shock.

It’s not my job as a taxpayer to pay for your transport.

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Reply 4

tashkent46

Original post by Rakas21

Most bus routes near rurality or late in the evenings are not profitable so this is not a shock.
It’s not my job as a taxpayer to pay for your transport.

You will end up paying more because of the huge public cost of social isolation and access to services and the economy (as people won't be able to get to routine appointments or to regular jobs). I get the idea but the logic that everything should be paid by the individual just does not scale very well - and this is precisely what this (along with public sector NHS issues) is. A person can't afford a bus service, someone else has to step in to provide the necessary economic support. The same way most individuals could never afford cancer treatment - but I would say (most reasonable) people prefer our system to the US one. This lack of scale is in my opinion the reason the economy has got so bad in the last thirteen years, because people no longer see problems as to be dealt with at the level they need to be dealt with at.

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Reply 5

Gazpacho.

Original post by Rakas21

Most bus routes near rurality or late in the evenings are not profitable so this is not a shock.
It’s not my job as a taxpayer to pay for your transport.

I'd rather see my taxes spent on unprofitable bus routes that allow the disabled and elderly to access vital services than see my taxes being corruptly siphoned off in dogy covid procurement contracts to friends of Conservative Ministers.