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Line drawn under Swansea bendy bus

02 October 2015
The £14m supposedly spent to make Swansea ‘bendy bus ready’ was actually intended to improve the city’s bus services across the board, the Welsh Government told The South Wales Evening Post, explaining why it was not planning to try and recoup the funds from bus operator First Cymru
The £14m supposedly spent to make Swansea ‘bendy bus ready’ was actually intended to improve the city’s bus services across the board, the Welsh Government told The South Wales Evening Post, explaining why it was not planning to try and recoup the funds from bus operator First Cymru

 

The implications of the decision by bus operator First Cymru to abandon its ‘bendy bus’ service in Swansea (LTT 10 Jul) continued to generate significant column inches in local paper The South Wales Evening Post. On 14 September, for example, the paper’s front page story concerned the apparent inability of the Welsh Government to ‘claw back’ any of the money it had put into the scheme from the bus operator. “Around £14m was spent by the Assembly and bus...

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