Anger in Dover over Stagecoach's planned bus cuts

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00:00This is going to be devastating, particularly in the rural community that we have because the services have been cut back

00:07and what we need is clean, reliable, safe and frequent bus services.

00:15If I want to go anywhere in the evening, it's nonsense.

00:18I went to a demo in London, but because we were late coming back,

00:24we missed the last bus to get from Whitfield down into Dover, so I had to walk.

00:33And with my mobility being poor, because I'm a pensioner now, that was a real issue.

00:40Our belief is that buses should be run for the public, but at the moment they're not being.

00:45So we're seeing today the 61, 64 being cut back.

00:49So whilst we can campaign against that, what we really need to see is it running in the interest of the public

00:54and not for private shareholders up in Perth.

00:57Going from what it is now, 20, 30 minutes an hour, to one an hour.

01:01Imagine that, you've got an appointment at a hospital, you've got cancer, and you've got to wait for an hour for a bus.

01:06It's horrific. At the end of the day, a bus service is supposed to be for the public and not just the shareholders.

01:13It impacts me very, very hard because I need surgery appointments.

01:17I've got a heart condition with COPD and other things.

01:21So I need surgery appointments and I need hospital appointments.

01:25And you can't always get them within the time frame that the timetable has been stated,

01:30roughly between 9 o'clock and 2 o'clock.

01:33Anything outside of that is a taxi or a train.