Plaid Cymru brands it an 'incredibly short-sighted decision' after industry warns of service cuts.
On Friday, it announced a further three-week extension to the end of the school year, meaning "school transport will continue as normal"., Deputy Climate Change Minister Lee Waters MS said the government would work with partners "on the transition away from emergency-style funding to plan bus networks which better suit the new travel patterns we have seen since the end of the pandemic".
He has asked Transport for Wales, council leaders and bus representatives to work together "to understand the impact of the ending of BES and to resolve the network issues that are likely to arise from the change in funding regime".Industry body Coach and Bus Operators Cymru which represents small firms, has previously raised fears of 65% to 100% of services being cut.
Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: "I think extending by a matter of weeks beyond the three months that was already promised is not going to work at all because it's going to lead to absolutely cataclysmic collapse of not just bus services but bus companies. "It's an incredibly short-sighted decision by a Welsh government that is saying, quite rightly, they want to encourage the shift out of the car to public transport.
"What we need, really, is 12 months of stability while we can actually build a bridge towards that new public transport provision rather than completely pulling the rug from underneath the bus companies."
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