In the interests of balance, too, Mr Cox’s letter does not cover:
- The council’s positive decision not to follow its consultant’s recommendation to eliminate the loop around Holly Bank
- The increased costs faced by bus companies running (already loss-making) services
- How the company runs this service only because the council subsidise it
- The reality that subsidies still feel the strain faced by the council due to real-terms cuts by Conservative governments, and rising costs of expensive services.
My question to Mr Cox is: which already-reduced and subsidised bus service – or any other service relied on by people in York – would he take more money from to have confidence that there will always be spare seats on the #16?
It’s really difficult, but we have to take a city-wide view with getting the most out of every pound that we have.
Kallum Taylor, Ward councillor for Holgate (Labour), Harlow Close, Holgate
