The leader of Neath Port Talbot Council Steve Hunt has spoken out this week after a number of bus services across the borough were cancelled due to funding cuts. It came after Welsh Government announced details of the Bus Transition Fund last month, a scheme set to replace the Bus Emergency Scheme which comes to an end later in July.
The Bus Emergency Scheme was designed to keep vital bus services across Wales running throughout the pandemic, and while Welsh ministers have promised that £43 million of funding will still be set aside to ensure "the majority" of bus services continue in the coming year, it looks like a number could still end up falling through.
The services currently impacted in Neath Port Talbot are run by South Wales Transport and would include the cancellation of the number 202 bus from Neath to Port Talbot via Briton Ferry, and the 204 bus which goes from Neath to Skewen, from July 22.
