
The no 46 service, which travels from Nailsworth through Stroud and Painswick and onto Cheltenham will be reinstated on Friday and Saturday nights on a five-month trial basis. This service may be extended if passenger use improves significantly - but equally if demand does not increase we are told the service will stop.
This is seen as a victory of common sense by many, but I have to still doubt the wisdom of cutting the evening services - this will impact on the whole service - I would far rather see priorities of the Council shift to put emphasis on public transport - and where is the proper promotion of such services - as I said to the press (and in my blog on 27th March): "Our countryside is increasingly becoming a ghetto for the rich, completely inaccessible for those without cars. Good rural buses need to be an alternative for people with cars as well as a lifeline for those without."
See also blogs on this bus service on 31st March plus 2nd and 21st April - of course what we really need is public ownership of our buses - see here.
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