'What we rarely do and certainly not in this case is invite all the political parties to harangue the bus companies'
He said: “It is shocking that the Conservatives are not willing to have an urgent meeting with operators to discuss the now daily problems raised by thousands of residents over cancelled buses, delays and changed routes that now isolate people., compared to £746k, £583k and £274k respectively for the previous years.Reports of bus cancellations have recently increased amid staff shortages.
Labour’s Asif Khan said: “I know bus services in Watford are simply not working for residents and this was an opportunity for councillors on behalf of residents to question bus operators as to why.The council's Tory leader Richard Roberts said the council is in daily contact with operators and a meeting between a council cabinet member and the operators is already planned for early in the new year.
“What we rarely do and certainly not in this case is invite all the political parties to harangue the bus companies,” he said. “The motion fundamentally misses the point that there is already a cross-party scrutiny planned for the new year which is by far the best way for the state of bus services to be better understood.“The real challenge for bus companies like so many businesses in the private, public and voluntary sector is a real shortage of people, in this case bus drivers.”for bus disruption amid claims it is “destroying people’s lives”.
It blamed industry-wide staff shortages and claimed a “highly targeted” recruitment drive and service changes should start to bring improvements from January.
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