Rural bus cuts ‘a problem’

Plans to cut bus routes could affect up to 500,000 bus journeys a year in Gloucestershire, council leaders have said.

Stagecoach West is planning to axe some of its routes from mid-November in favour of their urban bus services.

Philip Robinson, Cabinet Member for Education, Skills, and Bus Transport, said: ‘The cuts will affect some of the most vulnerable people in the county.’

Stagecoach said its decision to cut routes was purely down to a national shortage of bus drivers.