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RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 26 Apr 2019 14:38

Some of you may have noticed the disappearance of rural bus services and the thinning out of urban routes esoecially in the evenings and on Sundays. This hs been largely due to the collapse of bus revenue support from local authorities - Hampshire for instance has gone from £ 1.4 million in 1975 ( not adjusted for inflation) to nil.

With the upcoming local elections in mind consider that Labour have committed to £ 1.25 bn for bus revenue support - enough to restore services to a reasonable level.

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 26 Apr 2019 15:10

Surely that'd only work where there are County Council Elections?
In our County we have up-coming Parish Elections (non-contested so probably not) as well as Borough ones. The next CC election is scheduled for 2021

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RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 26 Apr 2019 15:37

Parish councils have no powers to support bus revenue and no money anyway.

Boroughs / CC have the same options for bus revenue support.

The Tories intend to end the two tier local government structure. Either there will be a single tier CC with no district councils at all OR a single tier borough. The latest example is Dorset CC which is now a single tier CC without any districts. Bournemouth has absorbed the Borough of Poole and the former Dorset CC district of Christchurch to make a single borough. Another example is Northants now just 2 one tier councils. Both Northants & Dorset showed how careful Tory admins are of ratepayer's money by building vast expensive offices.

The remnants of the former Dorset D.C. survive as glorified parish councils.

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nameslessone

nameslessone Report 26 Apr 2019 17:42

Some of the parish councils here have contributed towards the bus service. Without their help there would have been no buses.

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 26 Apr 2019 19:50

Parish councils may pay for bus shelters from the precept. They have no power to subsidise scheduled bus services. They can help with volunteer minibuses for shopping etc. In any case they simply do not have the funds to do so in any meaningful way.

Many councils argue that the cost of free bus passes precludes them from further revenue support for buses.

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nameslessone

nameslessone Report 26 Apr 2019 21:40

Our parish council Does make a payment to the bus company to keep our bus service. One parish no longer has the bus as it didn’t,t contribute, another refused to contribute as the bus route didn’t,t go all over the parish, rather than through it. ThAt parish is also partly covered by the Town service .