Claire Wild, Shropshire Council’s conservative portfolio holder for transport, has published a blustering defence of her handing of the Ludlow bus debacle on the Shropshire Council website. The article is factually wrong. Shropshire Council rightly takes pride in its website, but this article undermines its reputation for accurate information. In the article, which should be […]
Month: January 2014
Shropshire Council bus boss Claire Wild talks and walks away in Ludlow
At ten past eight this morning, Shropshire Council’s portfolio holder for transport, Claire Wild, spoke to BBC Radio Shropshire’s Clare Ashford. After this councillors and future candidates met Wild in the Church Inn. BBC Radio Shropshire Transcript Clare A: Good morning, it’s ten minutes past eight, Breakfast Show, now Ludlow’s bus services will change this morning, […]
At last – decent buses in Ludlow
It’s official and its real. Ludlow now has decent buses. As one Ludlow resident said to me moments ago: “It’s beautiful.” I agree. Today and tomorrow, Minsterley Motors is running an hourly 701 service around Ludlow with a brand new Optare. From Wednesday we are promised a half-hourly service. People have been worried for weeks […]
Public meeting on Ludlow’s bus service crisis – 1 February
The Ludlow Lib Dem group is hosting an open meeting on the bus crisis. It’s a non-political meeting and Shropshire Council has been invited. The meeting will be at 2pm, Saturday 1 February at the Women’s Centre in Ludlow (behind the big green door beside the Rose and Crown). This meeting is open to all. […]
Ludlow Park & Ride should be closed until bus crisis is solved
Currently buses service the park and ride every half an hour, though sometimes the gap extends to fifty minutes. And it can take up to half-an-hour to get back from the town centre to the car park. Many visitors have been appalled by poor timetable, let alone the scrappy state of the buses, some of […]