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Nexus pulls the plug on DRT routes in revamped tendered bus network

01 April 2010
LinkUp DRT: too expensive
LinkUp DRT: too expensive

 

Nexus is to scrap a network of demand responsive bus services in Tyne and Wear in favour of fixed link subsidised services, timetabled taxibuses and community transport.

The proposal follows a review of the conurbation’s subsidised public transport network aimed at  getting better value for money from the £9.1m (net) annual budget. 

Nexus’s LinkUp network of demand response transport (DRT) services has operated across the conurbation since 2006. Anyone can use the...

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