Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
Another surprize is the packed 61a 0630 bus that usually takes drivers up to whitfield and full of passengers has been withdrawn?
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
Just going to attempt the long route to Canterbury.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Social media is awash with people who think there will be no buses between Aycliffe and Whitfield in the future, they must think KCC are subsidising the route all day.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
What is staggering is the cost per passenger on some of those routes. There must be a lot of fresh air carried around at taxpayers' expense! It will be interesting to see how many journeys get registered as commercial. Many small operators must be worried - Regent, for example, have a huge amount of KCC work, much of which is threatened. The demise of Poynters in August shows what can happen where a firm relies on these contracts.
Lew Finnis
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
By the way, I've only just noticed Sue's comment nearly 3 weeks ago regarding starting handles - they went out when diesel engines came in back in the 1930s!
Lew Finnis
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
they do howard.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The 93 has been added to the hit list but confusingly just Between Dover and Martin.
http://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/kent-bus-services-doubt-worse-847435Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
Could be a bit of carelessness on someone's part - many parts of the list are unclear.
Lew Finnis
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The BBC have been following posts on social media and will be covering in their Sunday Politics South East in 4 days time, I suspect that they have been fooled into believing that a complete wipe out of services is on the cards.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,032
I see Rosie Duffield mentioned it (at PMQs?) in the HoC today; will have to check Hansard to read what she said.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Button wrote:I see Rosie Duffield mentioned it (at PMQs?) in the HoC today; will have to check Hansard to read what she said.
I saw the edited highlights earlier and Rosie made a complete fool of herself, firstly blaming KCC not central Government cutting funding then having a go at Damien Green who has no connection with KCC.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
To add to my earlier comment about carelessness, the list shows 111 as running to Dover which it hasn't done for many, many years. It used to serve West Hougham as a replacement for the 92.
Lew Finnis
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
They have corrected that Lew, Ashford - Folkestone. Just struck me about the school bus cuts where KCC charge parents for free passes, will they get a refund?
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
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School transport is a confusing area, as some are registered services and others are contracts. Some may be registered commercially. Am I right in thinking the 3-mile rule still applies for free school transport? If it does then KCC have to find some method of getting pupils to and from school.
Lew Finnis
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,865
the hit list isn't that clear
thus the confusion
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Charlie has now thrown his weight around with 10 other Kent MPs putting pressure on KCC to stop the cuts. All rather ironic as he and the other Tories voted for cuts in grants to councils!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Keith Sansum1 wrote:the hit list isn't that clear
thus the confusion
If people are confused Keith they only have to look at the timetables at bus stops and they will see which ones KCC subsidise.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,978
KCC gross budget for the 2017/18 financial year is £2,188,000,000
Proposed bus savings £2,000,000 per year
i.e. Less than 0.1% of budget
As ever councillors getting all worked up and spending hours discussing tiny amounts of money in the scale of things while 'nodding through' much more wasteful spending. It was ever thus.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,020
I thought I heard on radio Kent Paul Carter has had a rethink after Kent Mps sent him a letter.I did not hear the whole interview.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Sue Nicholas wrote:I thought I heard on radio Kent Paul Carter has had a rethink after Kent Mps sent him a letter.I did not hear the whole interview.
Sounds like a stalling tactic until the MPs lose interest and move on to something else. The £2, 000, 000 has to be saved somewhere.