Lancashire County Council Cuts to Bus Services

[Mayneway]

RE: Lancashire County Council Cuts to Bus Services

(29/02/2016 20:28)Barney Wrote:  I agree with you there but I do have the greatest sympathy for those who did not vote for that party and will soon be without these essential bus services as most, if not all, of these people have no real alternative.

I recall posting on a Facebook page based in Lancashire last year a warning about what would happen to tendered bus services in the event of a certain outcome in the general election only to be subjected to accusations of scare-mongering and being a member of the looney left.

What gets me is what do they - them down in London with a regulated bus network where you can get from one side of London to the other come day or night, expect people to do?
There will be genuinely people and communities completly cut off, people who rely on subsidised services to get to and from work, now facing an uncertain future.
Myself a shift worker for many years forced to consider my future when the late evening service I relied on to get home from work withdrawn. Do I quit my job or take out a bank loan and buy a car - I had to do the latter.

I'm not a political player, the while system bores means I personally think there all as bad as each other but what I'm sick of hearing is Cameron and Osborne and the other cronies constantly telling us these cuts are for a better future. Are they for real? Some of these services excist de-reg and once they go they will never return.
They need to realise that it's not just pensioners with connesionary passes that use subsidised services but hard working tax paying people that need these services to get too and from work!