Newark Advertiser reader letters: Please help save our bus services

Buses are a lifeline for our community they serve and should be protected.

We badly need better transport links. Newark can’t withstand all this traffic.

Our buses connect with communities in Balderton, Collingham, Farndon and Newark, etc, helping to ease loneliness and enable people to live full lives.

They are vital, especially for the 35% of low-income households that do not have a car. Buses play a key part, but if we do not use them them they will be lost.

It is heartless to see many passengers going on Stagecoach service 28 from Newark to Mansfield, and then another bus to King’s Mill Hospital.

Passengers have to be out most of the day as the time will be going over the five-hour mark round trip. The last bus from Mansfield back to Newark is at 6.40pm.

It is going to be a stressful time for many because of families might not be able to visit their love ones because of the inefficient service and overall decline of the bus cuts.

We need to campaign to save our vital bus services before we lose it for good.

We need to all work together to get more people using the buses before they are gone forever. — Laurence Goff, Newark