{"id":41893,"date":"2019-03-28T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=41893"},"modified":"2019-03-28T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:57:36","slug":"cardiff-residents-vexed-bus-routes-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/cardiff-residents-vexed-bus-routes-cut","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff residents vexed as bus routes are to be reduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cardiff bus is making several changes to their services from next weekend onwards and it has not been received well by its residents.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42012\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-42012 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Featured-Image-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"bus\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42012 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Featured-Image-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"bus\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Cardiff City by the Cardiff Central railway station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>People traveling on Cardiff bus will have to rethink their routes as they announced last month that they are going to be cutting down at least five buses.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff bus believes that these changes have been made for because these routes were not being used as other routes in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate that any change could be an inconvenience, but we would like to reassure our customers that we have thoroughly assessed all services, and attempted to meet demand where it\u2019s needed while addressing certain routes which are less well used,\u201d says Gareth Stevens, commercial manager of Cardiff bus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42009\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42009\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/X91-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42009\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/X91-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> X91 is one of the five buses that is going to be canceled.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These changes will be applied from 31 March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Early this year, in January, Cardiff bus issued a statement that it was cutting 12 routes in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan after making a \u00a31.9 million loss. But now, after consideration, they will only cut down five services which include buses 9A, 12, 54, 86 and X91 and four of the night service buses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41896\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-41896 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Cardiff-Bus-625x417.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41896 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Cardiff-Bus-625x417.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/noscript> The new Cardiff Bus\u00a0Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 MMC CN17BGY.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/126337928@N05\/\">\u00a9 Jeremy Segrott <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, Cardiff being a student city, it would mean that the students will have difficulty commuting around the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy main issue is that I live on North road, and they are going to be cancelling bus 27 after 11.30pm. That was one of my main ways to get back directly from the City Centre to North Road after I have hung out late with my friends\u201d says Mary, a law student at Cardiff University.<\/p>\n<p>Given the inconvenience caused by cutting down these routes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffld.org.uk\/lakeside-bus?fbclid=IwAR0DK-qIUPhXUaXknBi0W2kL9fr5YMWabQ4cIZWzMYFZD5mShOrf1DjFzfs\">Cardiff Liberal Democrats<\/a> have started a campaign to maintain the bus service which will affect the mobility issue in Lake Road West and Celyn Avenue. This petition, if signed by enough people, might help those bus routes to be maintained.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42005\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42005\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Poster-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42005\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/Poster-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Service change posters put up on every bus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the whole, the rescheduling and cancelling of the main bus service in Cardiff have caused a lot of imbalance in most of the people\u2019s lives here and it has caused the timetables of the existing buses to be changed as well. Some bus <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/cardiffs-3-year-old-temporary-bus-stop\">stations<\/a> might be closed or moved to accommodate the new routes.<\/p>\n<p>It can only be hoped that in the future, there will not be any more issues.<\/p>\n<p>The changes in the Cardiff bus schedule can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffbus.com\/service-change\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a map of the routes that will be cancelled:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff bus is going to change their schedules from the next week and the residents are not happy with it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":42012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[722],"class_list":["post-41893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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