A local transport firm is hoping to step in and provide a rural bus service to Nantwich villages after D&G decided to axe key routes.
Hit The Road Travel are exploring a new two-hourly circular route connecting Nantwich to Barbridge, Bunbury, Ravensmoor, Wrenbury and Aston.
A key Sunday bus service connecting Nantwich, Willaston and Crewe is being axed from July.
The loss of the D&G service means the 84 corridor will only have a service every 90 minutes on Sunday with Stagecoach.
Cheshire Police “safety buses” used in Nantwich and Crewe over Christmas and New Year have been hailed a success.
The buses were in Nantwich and Crewe for 12 nights and helped 377 people.
Arriva bus drivers in Cheshire have suspended their strike action after a new and improved pay offer from Arriva North West.
The company has now met drivers’ demands by tabling a new deal of £15 per hour or an 11.1% pay increase.
A Nantwich train driver has helped a team of volunteers drive buses across to Ukraine to transport children to safety from their war-torn country.
Mark Hardy-Johnson, who drives train by day, signed up to help when he saw an appeal on social media for drivers.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East is in the bottom 10 local authority areas for people using buses and the council is looking at ways to improve this.
The figure was revealed at a highways and transport committee meeting this week when councillors were discussing the national bus strategy (NBS).
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Better buses are on the agenda for Cheshire with transport chiefs keen to see passenger numbers rise.
Members of the Cheshire and Warrington local transport body agreed on Thursday to work on developing a bus strategy for the area over the next year.
By Stephen Topping
Better buses are likely to be at the top of the agenda when councillors are given the chance to overhaul the borough’s transport plan.
Cheshire East Council had been close to adopting its local transport plan for up to 2023 under the previous Conservative administration, following public consultation last summer.
Bus users in Crewe and Nantwich face another NINE days of disruption in December as Arriva drivers and engineers increase their industrial action.
Unite and GMB unions have announced 24-hour strike action in December on the 4th, 7th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd.
Villagers near Nantwich fear they will be isolated after a bus company said it would not run a service during an eight-week closure of a main road.
Residents in Acton contacted Arriva Buses when they were told the A534 road to Nantwich would be closed during refurbishment work on the Nantwich Aqueduct.
A campaign to save late evening bus services through the village of Willaston has been successful.
Villagers and councillors raised fears after Arriva Buses announced a plan to withdraw weekend evening services for the number 84 bus between Crewe and Nantwich, which serves Willaston.
Buses are bypassing a Nantwich village because street parking means they can’t through, it has emerged.
Now residents and councillors in Willaston are calling for a clampdown on motorists who leave their cars double parked.
Angry bus passengers from Nantwich have set up a Facebook group to fight cuts to local services from the town. Many have hit out after key journeys like the number 44 from Nantwich to Shavington and Crewe before 9am were axed.
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