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In recognition of the importance that local communities place on bus services, this year we have significantly boosted the money available for local community transport schemes, increasing the fund from £100,000 to £450,000. This includes subsidising more than 80 bus routes, subsidising the costs of bus travel for students through the Kent Travel Saver and 16+ schemes and supporting free travel for elderly and disabled bus users. KCC continues to invest over £30 million in support of Kent’s bus network and its users. These services will stop on 12 February 2023. We consulted on these bus reduction plans in the summer, and councillors voted to proceed with the planned subsidy withdrawals at the Full Council meeting on 20 October, to achieve a saving of £2.2 million. The 100+ bus withdrawals announced this year by private bus operators are entirely separate to the 38 bus contracts we planned to withdraw subsidies from. This work resulted in a much better position for passengers than was thought possible earlier in the summer. This is detailed in the bus service list below. In recognition of the impact these bus operator cuts would have on pupils and their families, we worked closely with them during the summer to provide a range of different measures to enable as many pupils as possible to get to school from September and protect as many school buses as possible at least until the end of the current school year. These services are not provided, or subsidised, by KCC. View the list of bus services affected.īus operators continue to face significant financial pressures from rising costs, significantly lower passenger numbers since the pandemic and a shortage of drivers.

Most changes to bus services have been proposed by private bus companies (affecting more than 100 services), some of which impact on school routes. Local use of buses is around 80% of pre-pandemic levels, with off-peak use being much less than this. However, we do provide funding to subsidise some routes or services that are not viable for private bus operators to run.īus use in Kent, as with rest of the UK, has only partially recovered since the pandemic. We do not have the powers or funding of an organisation like Transport for London.

We don’t run bus services in Kent, they are run for profit by private bus operators. This page is for residents to find out the latest information on bus services in Kent.

Daily timetable chart sutton to maidstone