Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire

[bramptontrev]

RE: Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire

(11/12/2013 18:28)bramptontrev Wrote:  Cumbria Councty Council have a public consultation underway on proposed future budget cuts.

One cut is to cease funding completely subsidies to bus services - £1.343m to bus operators. The full list of services subsidised is at http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/eLibrary/Conte...165249.pdf which shows service number, route, district (i.e local council), operator, days, cost of subsidy, no of passengers, cost per passenger. Some abreviations used are SCC=Stagecoach, A=Allerdale Council, B=Barrow Council, C=Cop=Copeland Council, Car=Carlisle Council.

Stagecoach appears more often than all the other operators listed put together.

There is now an update on the Cumbria County Council website - http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/roads-transpor...anging.asp

Over 80% of the proposed cuts have a statement "There is no decision on the future of this service and it will continue until further notice".

Changes affecting Stageacoach are (apologies if I missed any):

- 1 : Whitehaven : Lowca – Parton – Bransty – Town Centre. Stagecoach will continue to operate the Sunday Service without Subsidy. Sunday service (09:49 / 13:49 / 15:49)
- 22 : Lowca – Whitehaven – Kells – Mirehouse - Hospital – Cleator Moor – Frizington. There is no decision on the future of the evening service. It will continue until further notice.
All evening journeys Monday to Saturday (after 19:35 until 22:47 (M-Th) 23:56 (FS))
Stagecoach will continue to operate the Sunday Service without Subsidy. All Sunday journeys (08:45 to 17:30)
- 69 Carlisle Eden Town to Holme Head - funding ceases 19th July but service continues on a commercial basis
- 86 : Portinscale – Keswick. This Service will continue to operate until at least November 2014. Further information will be provided in early September. All trips (November – Easter)
- 300 Whitehaven <> Carlisle - funding for 23:00 from Carlisle ceases 19 July but the service continues on a commercial basis
- 554 Carlisle <> Keswick - funding continues to at least November 2014. Further informaton will be provided in early September
- 516 Kendal/Windermere <> Dungeon Ghyll - funding continues to at least November 2014. Further informaton will be provided in early September
- 551/552 : Kendal – Milnthorpe – Sandside – Arnside. Funding to provide this service will cease on 19 th July. The Monday to Friday journeys will be withdrawn from 4 th August and
the Saturday timetale will be reduced to two retimed trips
- 555 : Grasmere – Ambleside – Bowness - Windermere – Staveley – Kendal. This Service will continue to operate until at least November 2014. Further information will be provided in early September.
19:30 / 21:55 from Kendal (M-S – November to Easter)
20:35 / 23:00 from Grasmere (M-S – November to Easter)
Commercial journeys at these times between Easter and November are not effected.

Links are:
Allerdale - http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Conte...143625.pdf
Barrow - http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Conte...143851.pdf
Carlisle area - http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Conte...144027.pdf
Copeland - http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Conte...144157.pdf
Eden - http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Conte...144323.pdf
South Lakeland area - http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/elibrary/Conte...144457.pdf