{"id":14489,"date":"2015-07-07T23:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T22:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14489"},"modified":"2015-07-07T23:10:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T22:10:37","slug":"no-return-bus-from-bus-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14489","title":{"rendered":"No Return Bus from Bus Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reductions in central government funding to Oxfordshire County Council mean that they need to cut services, and they are aiming to save a further \u00a36.3m from bus subsidies.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15070701.jpg\" alt=\"Latest Bus Consultation\" \/><br \/>\nThey have already reduced the Abingdon Town Bus Service (pictured above) so that the last bus finishes at 15:30.<\/p>\n<p>They are now asking people what else can be cut. The options in the current consultation are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Withdrawing bus subsidies altogether<\/li>\n<li>Reducing funding to subsidised bus services &#8211; and adopting the principle of prioritising , where possible, services most likely to be used by the elderly and disabled&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Dial-a-Ride &#8211; Ending direct funding of the Dial-a-Ride service &#8211; encouraging community transport groups across the county to deliver a replacement service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can have your say on Wednesday 8th July at Abingdon Guildhall from 16:00-17:30. <\/p>\n<p>More information at the <a href=\"https:\/\/consultations.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/consult.ti\/stconsultation\/consultationHome?utm_source=FURL&amp;utm_medium=Friendly&amp;utm_term=STconsultation&amp;utm_campaign=Stconsultation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oxfordshire County Council&#8217; Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was pointed out to me that users of the Abingdon Town Bus Service have no return bus after 15:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reductions in central government funding to Oxfordshire County Council mean that they need to cut services, and they are aiming to save a further \u00a36.3m from bus subsidies. They have already reduced the Abingdon Town Bus Service (pictured above) so that the last bus finishes at 15:30. They are now asking people what else can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bus","category-disability-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}