Remote communities left isolated as councils cut support for buses and journeys fall by almost 100m in a decade
The government has been called upon to channel a some of its £4bn national bus investment strategy to the shires
10 December 2020 • 12:01am
A woman waits at a rural bus stop in the Lake District village of Grasmere. Many rural services are a lifeline to people in rural areas and the government cuts to local councils have seen the end of some services
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Ministers have been urged to pour funding into countryside bus routes, as a new analysis reveals that annual bus journeys in rural areas have fallen by 100 million in the past decade.