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Champions of bus services in Lancaster and Morecambe area celebrate 10th anniversary

Jim Davies, chair of the Lancaster Bus Users Group and treasurer Stephen Clarke with Councillor Abi Mills, mayor of Lancaster

A group championing the use of local bus services has celebrated its 10th birthday with an event at Lancaster Town Hall.

The Lancaster Bus Users Group has grown over the past decade into a strong voice lobbying for new, better and more joined-up bus services across the district.

Councillor Abi Mills, mayor of Lancaster and key founder of the group, welcomed members and supporters to the town hall for the celebratory event on October 24.

Jim Davies, chair of the group, gave a presentation on some of their achievements, including developing a website that contains maps and timetables for every bus route in the Lancaster District as well as advance information of forthcoming changes, publishing two maps of bus services showing all operators' buses in a single document, and securing the future of the number of bus services: including the number 18 bus to Williamson Park/Moorlands/Standen Gate areas; the number 33 bus (now the 6B/6C) linking Morecambe, Branksome and Bare following a proposal to withdraw it in 2016;  and the reinstatement and improvement of bus services in the Lune Valley to Kirkby Lonsdale.

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