The Mayor of West Yorkshire has warned of a “deepening crisis” in the bus industry amid cancelled services and the end of CT Plus Yorkshire.

Tracy Brabin made the comments alongside Louise Haigh MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Transport.

Ms Brabin said: “This is a deepening crisis that govt could resolve. Communities like ours in #WestYorkshire are being held back by a govt talking to itself while services are cancelled and companies go bust.”

Ms Haigh (Labour, Sheffield Healey) said: “A huge crisis in bus services is unfolding. Operators in a dysfunctional, privatised system are slashing key routes and many communities are powerless to stop them. And a government that pulled the plug on lifeline funding has now all but disappeared as services face the axe.

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“Just two years ago Boris Johnson and Grant Shapps promised 'to make public transport the natural first choice'. But communities are being cut off altogether.

“Labour mayors in power are fighting to change this. They are taking back control of our buses so they can be run in the interests of communities.

“In a cost of living + climate crisis, slashing buses millions rely on is sheer vandalism. Ministers should get off their sun-loungers and act.”

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