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Re: 400 more miles of the hard shoulder to be removed.
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Originally Posted by oliver1948uk
In Scotland, Wales and England (EXCEPT for London), the majority of bus services are provided commercially with no cost to the rate of tax payers. Local authorities have an obligation to pay for 'socially necessary' services not provided by commercial operators. Unfortunately, in recent years such services have been drastically reduced. Some councils do not subsidise any bus services.
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Our council owned our local bus service until they sold it lock stock and barrel to a national commercial operator who were full of promises in the first few months but now they have cut back on some routes while reducing the volume of buses in other routes throughout the day.
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