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To: Department of Transport
Stop The Cuts To Bus Services In The East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire Council have instigated drastic bus cuts to bus services across Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire, specifically to ‘Supported Services in Rural Areas. Preston will lose one bus operator and many of its rural routes, although there are many other rural communities like Sproatley, Wyton, Leven, etc. who will suffer such cuts. This is due to a cut in subsidy from the Government. To drastically cut rural supported bus services will cause unemployment, lower employment prospects, damage the local economies of rural communities and has the potential to cause social exclusion for many people living in these areas. I want the Government to re-instate with immediate effect, the supported services subsidies paid to East Riding of Yorkshire Council for public bus transport to a financially appropriate level to which bus companies can then continue to provide rural bus services to the areas of East Riding of Yorkshire.
Why is this important?
Although the bus services have now been revised and the original planned cuts have been reviewed with many services re-instated/protected; there still is the issue of cuts to subsidies for rural areas such as East Riding of Yorkshire from Central Government. We believe that public transport subsidies should be ring-fenced to protect supported services in rural areas. At present the revised services are leaving vulnerable people, those ‘medically unfit to drive’ and the elderly cut off from friends, relatives and essential facilities.
