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I wonder what percentage of folk use public transprt? The reason i ask is the last time i used a train or bus was probably 50 years ago.
As far as I am aware bus passes are only free of cost to those who use them, as the fares still have to be paid for. So, who pays for the fares? Local councils. And where do the local councils get their money? From council tax payers and from central government via the national tax take. But central governemnt has restricted how much money local councils can raise via council tax. This has, ...
This means Teignmouth and Dawlish also lose seven services and the stops at Newton Abbot will be reduced. Today, the Herald Express has teamed up with politicians, business and tourism leaders to launch a campaign to Save our Trains and we need all our readers to sign up and object to the proposals. Read more... ...
Dawlish Christian Fellowship and Redrow Homes have announced the project at Redrow’s Warren Grove site, adjacent to Sainsbury’s supermarket. Read more... http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/new-community-centre-will-be-a-real-asset-to-dawlish/story-29973320-detail/story.html
The video was created by Exeter-based agency HoneyBe Creative. It aims to support a crowdfunding campaign to help keep beavers living in the wild on the River Otter in East Devon. The video was shot in Dawlish and stars a dog provided by Sandra Cowell, alongside Nora, the Devon Wildlife Trust beaver mascot. It was one of four dogs there on the day but only one was needed during the shoot. ...
It looks to me that the service is little used after 1600 so why not reduce buses to one every hour or as Lynne has mentioned a small bus, mini bus service. Stagecoach at the moment recieve a subsidy i presume that covers the cost of running the service once that goes they will cut the service, they know what buses are profitable from ticket sales. Now we tend to take it for granted there will ...
It would be interestimg to know from Stagecoach just exactly how bad the financial figures are. Outside of the holiday season does anyone actually pay to travel on the hop 2 service. Ive only ever seen it full of school children or OAPs both of which get free passes. Maybe a re-think on the timetable is justified. What about a dual system of one timetabled bus every hour and one on kind of standby ...
Would smaller buses use less petrol/diesel over the same route? Just thinking along the lines of a mini bus type of service.
Well we haven't been cut off for the last 100 years, well, except for four months in 2014, but the way things are going with the buses and trains we WILL be cut off! What are the district councillors doing about all of this...........not a lot from the deafening silence from them!
Yes i know that but why should we i dont get subsidised for running my car, have just watched 6 buses pass my home with a total head count of 12 two were empty that cannot be sustainable and its wrong on so many levels. We have large heavy buses running empty polluting the air we breath and damaging our roads, so i ask again would anyone provide a bus service and lose money i know i wouldn't.