Save our buses!

The number 71 and 72 bus services are vital to people in Belper estates, Holbrook, Kilburn and Little Eaton.

The services are due to END on Xmas eve!

Our communities cannot be allowed to be cut off like this.

We the undersigned call on the Derbyshire County Council to fulfil on its commitment to public transport,  and to do all that is required to secure the future of these services.

The Government has a stated bus strategy,  and the main objective of the strategy is to reverse the long-term decline in bus use nationally over the last 20 to 30 years. Government committed to provide £3bn of new transformation funding nationally to help deliver this change.

Time for Government and council to put its money where its mouth is, and save this service!

Cllr Ben Bellamy