{"id":36662,"date":"2019-03-29T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=36662"},"modified":"2019-03-29T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T14:28:15","slug":"cardiff-bus-routes-saved-from-axe-for-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/03\/29\/cardiff-bus-routes-saved-from-axe-for-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff bus routes saved from axe for two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_32041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32041\" style=\"width: 709px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-32041\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"709\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-32041\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"709\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/02\/86-bus-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><\/noscript> The number 86 bus, one of the six services due to be scrapped, has been saved following extra funding from Cardiff council.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nTHE six Cardiff bus routes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/01\/29\/this-is-why-cardiff-bus-are-cutting-12-services\/\">due to be cut<\/a> at the end of this month have been secured for two more years.<br \/>\nThis follows an extra investment from the city council \u2013 with Cardiff Bus maintaining tenure of four routes and Stagecoach taking over two.<br \/>\nGraham Hinchey, Labour councillor for Heath and cabinet member for children and families, helped set up a petition to save the routes and worked toward securing their safety.<br \/>\n\u201cThe bus routes have been secured for two years because we don\u2019t know what the budget will be like in two years\u2019 time,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt will give us time to speak to the Welsh Government, about subsidies and a change in regulation.\u201d<br \/>\nFunding for the routes was given by the council through a &#8220;bus service social subsidy&#8221; initiative.<br \/>\nThe council have said it will welcome proposals from the Welsh Government and is aiming to negotiate new legislation to protect services as part of the &#8220;improving public transport&#8221; White Papers.<br \/>\nThere will be no changes to the bus routes and times, other than some services being run by Stagecoach instead of Cardiff Bus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Services 12 and 86 will be operated by Stagecoach<\/li>\n<li>Services 15, 51\/53, and 66 will continue to be run by Cardiff Bus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The change over of services will begin on April 1, a day after the routes were initially meant to be cut.<br \/>\nCoun Hinchey said both bus companies will have consultation on how the services can be made more viable for residents: \u201cThe number 86 needs to run earlier in the morning, for example, and later in the evening to make it more profitable.\u201d<br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/02\/08\/heath-residents-set-up-petition-to-save-bus-route\/\">petition<\/a> was set up by Heath Residents Association when the 86, 51\/53 routes through Heath were proposed to be scrapped \u2013 in which over 500 people signed.<br \/>\nCoun Hinchey added that the petition was \u201cvery important\u201d as it highlighted the significance of the services to the community.<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cIf you take away the bus routes you\u2019re talking about social isolation. The petition really highlighted the social issue of elderly people and how they depend on the services.\u201d<br \/>\nCaro Wild, Labour councillor for Riverside and cabinet member for strategic planning and transport, has said: \u201cWhilst we have been able to secure these services for a further two years, we may not be in a position to do so if more routes are threatened.<br \/>\n\u201cI would urge Cardiff residents to try to use the bus services over a private car, wherever they are able to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE six Cardiff bus routes\u00a0due to be cut at the end of this month have been secured for two more years. This follows an extra investment from the city council \u2013 with Cardiff Bus maintaining tenure of four routes and Stagecoach taking over two. Graham Hinchey, Labour councillor for Heath and cabinet member for children and families, helped set up a petition to save the routes and worked toward securing their safety. \u201cThe bus routes have been secured for two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":32041,"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":[417,3],"tags":[1115,583,52,6700,126],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-36662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heath","category-news","tag-bus-services","tag-cardiff-bus","tag-cardiff-council","tag-stagecoach","tag-welsh-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff bus routes saved from axe for two years - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/03\/29\/cardiff-bus-routes-saved-from-axe-for-two-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardiff bus routes saved from axe for two years - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE six Cardiff bus routes\u00a0due to be cut at the end of this month have been secured for two more years. 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