New Cheshire East bus review

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RE: New Cheshire East bus review

(05/05/2020 16:42)knutstransport Wrote:  From Cheshire East council meeting notes


So nothing to do with services suffering more from subsidy cuts than in other areas.

And when they say 'congestion' they probably mean trying to have one service for too many different markets like the 88 Macclesfield-Knutsford going all around the houses between Knutsford and Chelford and the 88 Knutsford-Wilmslow serving roads which were previously served by the 300 Knutsford Circular and less recently an Alderley Edge-Brook Lane-Chapel Lane-Wilmslow local service (I can't remember the service number.)

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistica...r-journeys

On the above page if you look at the BUS0110 table which has the journeys per head of population from 2009/10 to 2018/19 you'll see the rate of decline over that full period in Cheshire East is 35%. In 2018/19 it was 9.8 journeys per head, with only Rutland and Windsor/Maidenhead very slightly lower. As a comparison, Cheshire West has 27.4 journeys per head, down from 34.2 in 2009/10.

In fact, the decline in Cheshire East since 2017 has been nearly as much as the decline over the previous 8 years.