Talks to safeguard a vital bus route have proved successful following an intervention by Abram Ward Councillor, Eunice Smethurst.
Those avid readers of my blog will remember that in October 2008 I together with the local MP Ian McCartney and other local Labour Councillors supported a campaign under the name of Use it or Lose to save the 620 bus route from being scrapped.
It is with great pleasure that I can now announce that thanks to the work of Abram Councillor Cllr Smethurst we have now obtained the support of GMITA to continue the service on a permanent basis, by advocating an extension to the service which will now link Hindley, Platt Bridge, Bamfurlong, Ashton and Stubshaw Cross with St Helens, rather than terminating in Ashton.
Last week Cllr Smethurst was joined by myself and Cllr Keir Stitt (Hindley Green) to celebrate the safeguarding of the route. - see picture above.
3 comments:
Good work to all concerned in saving this vital route. Your blog is saved as a bookmark and I just thought I'd check by and saw this. Most excellent news! The fight back in 2008 was well worth it in the end and made it known the public will not be walked over now, or in the future!
if only it ran back to bolton via aherton it would be well used by a lot of people at st helens who go to bolton, its a shame some people cant see how important that route was and can be again
if only it ran back to bolton via aherton it would be well used by a lot of people at st helens who go to bolton, its a shame some people cant see how important that route was and can be again
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