Buses at threat are due to be saved
Passengers have welcomed a 'godsend' multi-million-pound plan to boost Nottingham's bus network. A £11.4m investment is planned into Greater Nottingham's public transport network in the next three years to increase bus reliability and improve journey time savings through the delivery of additional bus lane schemes, junction improvements and priority at traffic signals for late running buses.
"I don't drive so I really have to rely on buses and the trams. It will really help elderly people to have more reliable buses, and anyone else who depends on them." Funding will be pumped into continuing the frequency of more than a dozen Nottingham City Transport routes, among other services run by separate operators. For example, for the NCT 3 service from Clifton to the city centre, NCT will divert journeys into Silverdale, and south Wilford which would be without a service following the withdrawal of CT4N services.
The city council has accepted the funding from the Department for Transport. Executive Board agenda papers say flexible working and two years of Covid public health messaging had cut the level of bus usage to 80-85 per cent of its pre-pandemic level.
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