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While many people are quite rightly complaining about the Tory cuts to local bus services, less attention has been paid to the causes and few have suggested alternatives.

Our bus services are commercially operated for private profit but, importantly, sometimes subsidised. The cost is significant – it had been £2.57million a year, paid from public funds to a private company, and as central government starves local government of necessary income it is perhaps unsurprising that our bus service is under attack yet again.

There appears to be a complete absence of joined-up thinking about this.

Cutting bus services while trying to reduce congestion and pollution is counter-intuitive