More than £520k of Government funding will help keep Derbyshire's buses moving as public transport struggles to get up to pre-pandemic use.
Derbyshire County Council accepted the Local Transport Fund grant from the Department of Transport, which will help sustain the bus network until 31 March.
A council report into the matter explained that public transport is still proving a less popular mode of transport following the Covid 19 pandemic when patrons were warned to keep their distance from others.
It stated: “At the current point in the Covid-19 recovery period, patronage levels are still recovering and have not yet reached pre-Covid levels.
“Local operators are reporting approximately 75-80 per cent patronage levels, with concessionary passenger uptake remaining at a much lower level than this, some 50-60 per cent.”
To address the issue in the long-term, the authority has partnered with Derbyshire bus operators to established an ambitious three-year programme of Bus Service Improvement Plan interventions, which with it has been allocated £47 million from the Government’s National Bus Strategy initiative funding.
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