Many of you have heard from residents about their anger and anxiety caused by the loss of their regular buses, and Westlink’s lack of reliability, particularly in the rural areas of North East Somerset. As you may know, WECA is the Transport Authority with £57m to spend on buses and the Government’s permission to support regular buses. To persuade the WECA Mayor to use some of this money to benefit all our residents – it would cost around £2m to restore the lost buses in NES, the next stage in the campaign is to gather a petition from our residents to tell the WECA Mayor that the loss of rural buses is no game for them. He should not waste millions of pounds on cosmetic branding (£4m) or birthday buses (£8m), when entire communities (around 40,000 people) have lost their regular bus service. Here is the link: