Seer Green pensioner urges council not to cut the only bus in the village (From This Is Local London)

Seer Green pensioner urges council not to cut the only bus in the village

7:30am Monday 7th December 2009 in

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A PENSIONER from Seer Green has urged a council not to make cuts to the only bus service in the village - saying it is already “like living on the Yorkshire Moors”.

The 305 bus currently travels between Uxbridge and High Wycombe seven times a day, but around half the stops will be cut from January 4.

It will only travel between Uxbridge and Beaconsfield, meaning Seer Green residents will be forced to get two buses into High Wycombe. The last bus of the day will also be cut.

Buckinghamshire County Council subsidise the service and have given the contract to a new company.

Barbara Clarke, of Wood Pond Close, wrote to the council: “We [pensioners] have only recently been given free travel and now you propose giving us fewer buses.

“I feel quite desperate about this and cannot convey to you how I feel. I would feel so depressed by your actions that I could not bear it.”

She complains that she cannot go far because the last bus [currently at 6.40pm] returns too early as it is.

Andy Clarke, group manager for transport services at BCC, said: “The last journey of the day was only used by a very small number of people and didn't represent value for money.”

He said the Beaconsfield to High Wycombe leg of the journey was not subsidised by the council and Jason Tours, which takes on the contract in January, has chosen not to continue it. Arriva currently runs the service.

He said passengers can get on another bus in Beaconsfield if they are travelling on to High Wycombe.