Nottinghamshire County Council says it will be saving 19 bus services which could have faced the axe. However some level of uncertainty remains as decisions on the future of a number of unfunded routes are yet to be made by operators.
The Conservative-led council will be funding the routes using money from the Government’s Bus Recovery Grant, set up to finance routes which had typically struggled to regain the passengers lost amid the coronavirus pandemic, as well as existing council-held transport funding.
Funding for bus routes will last, initially, until April 2023 and comes on top of £4.1m given by the council to support a further 80 bus routes each year. One such service which has been saved is the 141 in Sutton, after a petition was set up by the Ashfield Independents.
