But for contract reasons including having a 10-day period when the tenders could be legally challenged, the final results were not published till this week. The CPCA received tenders for all but one of the bus services on its list as confirmed at the Board meeting on 19th October. Then following my intervention through our Full Council, the partially withdrawn or revised bus service routes especially Citi4 got put on the list for tender. The CPCA straightaway put the fully withdrawn bus service routes in a list to put out to tender to other operators. In my previous post, I outline the steps I took to help my ward villages affected by the changes to the bus service No.18 and Citi4. But as it’s the District and County councillors that residents know, we were contacted for help and some asked what we were going to do about it! The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) is the Authority responsible for Transport in our County, not District or County Council. What actions taken to bring back bus services? The Stagecoach announcement of the bus service changes just after the Queen’s funeral caused public outrage. It claimed No.18 is not viable so withdrawing it completely and Citi4 only partially viable, so rerouting it to bypass Caldecote and Hardwick Turns. Why did Stagecoach withdraw bus services?Īs I explained in a previous post, Stagecoach reviewed its operations post Covid, deciding that some routes were no longer viable and some were partially viable. Good news for residents of villages in my ward, especially Caldecote, Bourn, Kingston and Longstowe who are directly affected by the changes. The No.18 route will now be operated by Whippet Coaches Ltd, whilst the Citi4 route will remain as it is now. The results of the tender by the Combined Authority for new bus services to replace those withdrawn or reduced by Stagecoach have now been formally published.
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