Calls for Council to Step up Bus Provision - DNG Online Limited

Calls for council to step up bus provision - DNG Online Limited

DUMFRIES and Galloway Council should be moving up a gear to reinstate lost bus services to the public, a councillor argued this week. At the special council meeting yesterday to discuss problems with the region’s new bus provision, Annandale North Councillor Carolyne Wilson said: “The public have been told in press statements that this is ‘business as usual’, when I would say it really isn’t. “And they’ve been told by the council and Swestrans t…

Councillors Gather at Special Meeting of Full Council to Discuss Region’s Bus Network

Councillors gathered at a special meeting of Full Council today (Monday 11 August) to discuss the bus network that was introduced in Dumfries and Galloway last Thursday (7 August). Councillors noted the decision by Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Chief Executive to invest £2.66 million in a fleet of 12 new low-emission buses to safeguard vital transport links between communities in the west of the region. The buses have been operating on public…