Buses in 'crisis' as 3,000 routes reduced or scrapped

In July 2018 we reported on figures from transport campaigners showing that more than 3,000 bus routes had been cut back or withdrawn in England and Wales in the past eight years.

Get the data

• XLS: Bus route cuts 2010-2018 (converted from this pdf

Interviews and quotes

• Steve Chambers, Campaign for Better Transport (CBT)
• Martin Tett, transport spokesman, the Local Government Association
• Government spokeswoman

Visualisation

• Multiple bar chart: Cuts in council funding for buses - change 2016-18 and 2010-17