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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

Quarter of bus routes axed in England in last decade

Buses on the North Yorkshire coast between Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Whitby.
Buses on the North Yorkshire coast between Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Whitby. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images

More than one in four bus services in England have been cut in the last decade, with the pandemic accelerating the decline, a transport charity has found.

Almost 5,000 routes have been axed since 2012, with the north-west and east of England the two regions worst affected.

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