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Shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh has hit out at the 'staggering decline' in local bus services inLabour highlighted Traffic Commissioner statistics showing a 38 per cent decline in local bus routes in Scotland between 2007 and 2023, including 160 in the past year alone.
With campaigning for the by-election coming amid controversy over a reduction in nighttime bus services by First Bus Glasgow, Labour seized on the opportunity to attack the SNP, accusing ministers of failing to enact franchising legislation which would allow local councils to take control over services.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar claimed that"bus routes in Scotland are collapsing while the SNP is standing idly by."
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