{"id":1249,"date":"2012-04-03T16:33:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcarbon.co.uk\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2019-05-19T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T08:01:10","slug":"evening-news-features-story-on-axed-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/evening-news-features-story-on-axed-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening News features story on axed buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Edinburgh Evening News did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/edinburgh-evening-news\/edinburgh\/bus-users-face-misery-as-first-axes-vital-services-1-2212450\" title=\"Bus users face misery as First axes vital services \"><strong>follow up piece<\/strong><\/a> on axed bus routes in today&#8217;s paper which highlights just how much upset it will cause to rural residents of East Lothian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/edinburgh-evening-news\/edinburgh\/bus-users-face-misery-as-first-axes-vital-services-1-2212450\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/04\/analysis-300px.jpg\" alt=\"Bus users face misery as First axes vital services - click to read Evening News&#039; story\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1250\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>However, in a small section marked &#8216;analysis&#8217;, the paper sought the &#8216;expert&#8217; view of former Lothian buses chief Neil Renilson. He said, &#8220;The impact on the majority of passengers will be modest or slight, as most of the services being wound down parallelled Lothian Buses&#8217; services, and I have no doubt that on the routes where First Group are simply copying Lothian&#8217;s services, Lothian will provide any extra seats needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This so-called analysis totally omits the fact that Lothian buses do not operate competitive services to Ormiston, Pencaitland and other villages in East Lothian. Any axing of First&#8217;s services will leave villagers, without access to private transport, totally cut off. <\/p>\n<p>Pencaitland Community Council<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/pencaitlandcc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter-c.png\" alt=\"Follow Pencaitland community council on Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edinburgh Evening News did a follow up piece in today&#8217;s paper on axed bus routes which highlights just how much upset it will cause to rural residents of East Lothian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,157,176,831],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-buses","tag-edinburgh-evening-news","tag-first","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}