Ipswich Council is in talks to sell off Ipswich Buses to the Go Ahead group. No doubt certain councillors who never use the buses (or live in the ward) are preparing their leaflets now. It’s a good thing I’m not standing as a Conservative in the next Borough elections. Oh wait, I am.
The truth is that subsidising just about anything, and that includes Ipswich Buses, is impossible in the current economic climate and all three parties know it. We are the last of the G20 countries to climb out of the recession.
The most important thing that concerns this ward is whether the bus services in the Maidenhall Estate will keep at their current levels and whether the progress that is slowly being made with coordinating the bus services on the Wherstead Road is continued.
I will continue to be looking at this and report back.
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