Bus Service to be axed and an iconic bridge

It seems that Arriva are to axe their number 6 service Warrington - Widnes - Liverpool route next month.

They're justifying this by saying that the service is uneconomic with passenger numbers dropping.

Such a decision at a time when we ought to be encouraging public transport use, owing to issues such as climate change and ever rising fuel prices which will inevitably drive people out of their cars, seems extremely short sighted.

The hundreds of thousands of pounds spent by this council on promoting the second mersey crossing and the hundreds of millions to be spent on the bridge if the project goes ahead would be better spent on ensuring the development of cheap and efficient local public transport systems.

Local residents would be more likely to gain socially and economically from such developments than an iconic bridge were most of the traffic will be through traffic.