A Bristol MP has described a decision to cancel 1,450 buses a week as ‘the apparent collapse of Bristol’s public transport system’, and says she will ‘demand answers’ from the city’s biggest bus company.
Thangam Debbonaire, the MP for Bristol West, said she would be ‘urgently contacting’ First Bus to find out ‘how they will continue to adequately serve Bristolians’ who depend on buses, following First’s announcement that they don’t have enough bus drivers to maintain their own timetable.
Bristol Live revealed today that First is ‘temporarily cancelling’ hundreds of bus journeys on more than a dozen different routes that, spread over a seven-day week, amounted to a total of 1,450 individual bus journeys. The cancellations were effectively a case of First West of England trimming its own timetable to match the number of drivers it has, rather than promise a timetable it then could not meet because of its ongoing recruitment crisis.
