With announcement of further cuts to local Arriva bus services in Maidstone, Greens have reiterated their calls for government at local and national level to intervene.
Last month local Greens wrote to Grant Shapps demanding to know when money promised for bus services in Kent would be provided, so far there has been no response. Cllr Jeffery has also renewed his calls for a Maidstone forum between the council and bus operators, a forum that many district councils have.
Cllr Stuart Jeffery (Green): “This is yet another blow to our much needed public transport services and one that has been engineered by local and national government.
“We have a climate crisis, a cost of living crisis and a transport crisis. Public transport should be a significant part of mitigating these crises yet government at all levels not only refuses to support our bus services but they are actively undermining them.
“Maidstone Borough Council urgently needs a forum with local bus operators and KCC to formulate a real plan to improve and sustain our buses. Keeping eyes closed and ears covered will just lead to more cuts.”
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