Psalter Lane Bus - your views please

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

I agree with that.

[bus man 10]

Specific examples of non-operation should be reported to Travel South Yorkshire

 

https://www.travelsouthyorkshire.com/tellus/

 

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Which it may still be if people aren't using the service provided. Where are all those people who campaigned for the number 4 bus? Having won their campaign they should be supporting this bus.

Use it or lose it.

 

Unfortuanatley there is a long tradition in this area of very vocal campaigns for bus services that when they are put on usualy results in very low customer uptake

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Anyway, there are really two parts to the service provision:

1. From City via Psalter Lane.

2. The Millhouses loop.

 

It's possible to have one without the other. Svc. 4 now serves Bents Green (re-establishing a bus going up Bents Road, after a gap with none). The Millhouses loop is served by svc. 83.

[tbtc 10]

What I have noticed over years is that, when a certain bus route starts to get unreliable people start to commute by other methods. The bus company then see's a reduction in demand and cuts services because people aren't using it as much. If it keeps happening the bus route could be lost altogether. Coming back to surveys I think many people who never use a bus still want it running,"just in case".

 

Vicious circle.

 

Fewer people use service

 

Bus company make cutbacks

 

Fewer people use service

 

Bus company threaten to make further cuts

 

A thousand people sign a petition promising to use this vital public service

 

Even fewer people use the service

 

PTE has to rescue the service and ends up paying a lot of our council tax to satisfy car users who want an hourly bus service for the one day a year that their vehicle is in for servicing

 

Other tendered services see cuts to find money for these "saved" services

 

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