I have created a petition to bring pressure to bear on the incoming Mayor of the Combined Authority to oppose Stagecoach’s planned cuts to rural services in the region.

The petition can be found here

Please sign, encourage your family members to sign and share it wherever you can! If you right-click on the image above and select ‘Open in New Tab’, you can print a version that can be signed manually, then returned to me for inclusion in the final tally.

Rural Communities Need Sustainable Public Transport

The residents of the rural areas to the south and east of Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, learned with dismay on Thursday 17th April that Stagecoach were ‘considering’ the amalgamation of routes 31 and 33, with the implied loss of a bus service for Eastrea, Coates, Pondersbridge and the rural communities between Whittlesey and March and between Whittlesey and Ramsey.

Since that time sources within Stagecoach are suggesting that the plans may be even more advanced than the Stagecoach press release indicated. Reports are emerging that the decision is not only already made, but has an implementation date of 31st August 2025.

This petition calls upon the Mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority to make strenuous efforts to resist this change and encourage Stagecoach to continue to provide a service for the 10,000+ residents of that region who will have no other recourse, apart from private car, for their daily journeys.

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