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connectbude.co.uk A volunteer-ran campaign group established in 2016, dedicated to bringing passenger #rail services back to North #Cornwall.

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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 25/06/2026
This is what Cornwall needs. connectbude.co.uk/kernow-conne...
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Kernow Connect - Connect Bude
A new direct mainline from Okehampton to Penzance via Launceston and Bodmin could dramatically cut London–Penzance journey times, bring rail access to far more of Cornwall and West Devon, improve nati...
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Ben Maguire MP @benmaguiremp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🚨 Rail travel improvements 🤝 North Cornwall In Parliament recently I was able to raise North Cornwall’s dire lack of railway infrastructure during a Railways Bill debate.
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 28/11/2025
Yep, which is why we're against EV and fuel pay per mile. It disproportionately taxes rural communities, who have already had their rail and buses taken away.
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 28/11/2025
There's 40k residents and +285k visitors (all via car) a year in our area. You going to tell everyone they have to move from their place of birth because of gov cancelling buses and removing our rail? And ban visitors from coming? Wow..
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 27/11/2025
Do you live in North Cornwall? +285k visitors and +40k residents cannot have a ring and ride to take them 30.2 miles to the train station. We started with a train, then an hourly direct coach, then a stopping double decker, and now a once every 3hrs stopping double decker that misses the train.
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 27/11/2025
* Regressive taxes with pay per mile taxing on isolated rural communities when they have no other options for travel; while they struggle with closed local services, cancelled bus routes, and no rail. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 27/11/2025
They are getting reduced year on year (we've gone from hourly to a once every 3hr bus to our local train station), or cancelled outright www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...
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First Bus set to cease all Cornwall operations
The company said it is no longer financially viable to run in Cornwall
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Any pay-per-mile tax is an unfair tax on isolated rural communities where services and public transport has been and is continued to be stripped away. Cart before the horse when there's no other method of travel available. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
It penalises those who live far from services, hits poorest hardest as we often have lower incomes and fewer alternatives, and deepens rural isolation. Transport access is a fundamental enabler of opportunity - for work, education, health, social life. This tax marginalises rural communities further
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
I don't think you've read the link? We're against all pay-per-mile taxes inc. fuel. We don’t ask parents to pay more tax for schools, sick people to use the NHS, so why rural communities to pay more for roads because of the gov’s failure to provide local services and public transport?
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
That's a big assumption. You don't have any remote communities in Wales that don't have public transport options or that are limited to cars due to disability? Because a pay-per-mile tax unfairly punishes those of us in isolated rural areas. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Any pay-per-mile tax unfairly punishes those of us in isolated rural communities - especially when there is no other public transport option. £742.50+ new tax on a commute to the nearest city. How is that tax making our area more productive or prosperous? connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
We would argue that any pay-per-mile tax unfairly punishes those of us in isolated rural communities - especially when there is no other public transport option. A £742.50+ new tax on a commute to the nearest city is not fair. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
We would argue that any pay-per-mile tax unfairly punishes those of us in isolated rural communities - especially when there is no other public transport option. A £742.50+ new tax on a commute to the nearest city is not fair. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Yes! Tolls for specific roads could be a fairer alternative (and easier to implement!). Especially around areas which have great alternatives/park n rides. We ❤️ active travel too, and encourage it throughout our town, but it's unreasonable to expect to do a 57 mile trip each way to Exeter💔
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Not just that, but it's made the cost of living in a rural community MUCH higher. Unfairly taxing those of us that have to travel further for access to jobs and services, and that have no public transport because of cuts. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Private video. But I hope you mention the £742.50/yr extra tax for the most isolated rural families to commute to the local city, with no other public transport option as buses no longer head there. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
We need your help to scrap unfair pay-per-mile tax that punishes rural communities for the gov's choice to no longer provide public transport or services locally. £742.50/yr to commute for work and education to our local city now. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
We would argue that any pay-per-mile tax unfairly punishes those of us in isolated rural communities - especially when there is no other public transport option. A £742.50+ new tax on a commute to the nearest city is not fair. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
When there's continuous chipping away at our ability to travel in our region, while other regions get improved connectivity - we need to stand up to any change that negatively affects our community. But happy to leave it as agree to disagree on this.
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
We don't all benefit equally from everything. Tax ensures that we pool resources. Deliveries, emergency services, maintenance, cycling and business use of roads - I would say that we all benefit from. Expecting a poorer connected community to have to pay more doesn't feel right for us.
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
👎Any per-mile tax is incredibly unfair on isolated rural communities such as North Cornwall, especially with bus services scrapped. There is no alterative. An extra £742.50 in taxes to commute to the nearest city for work or education now. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Now, if all public transport is magically fixed, so anyone anywhere in the UK can access services with a reasonable time and cost - then that's fair to start to discuss a tax for more "premium options". But if driving is the only option, it's the cart before the horse and only hurts our community.
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
We don’t ask families to pay more tax to use schools, sick people to pay more to use the NHS, so why should we ask rural communities to pay more for roads they are required to use because of the government’s failure to provide local services and public transport? What about disabled drivers needs?
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
It unfairly targets already isolated rural communities. +£742.50/yr is unacceptable to access the local city for jobs and education. It penalises those who live far from services and deepens rural isolation. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Taxing isolated rural communities more for living further away from services and jobs, more because of slashed public transport, more because of not providing any alterative other than driving connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
It's worse than that - pay-per-mile tax will devastate the finances of some of the most isolated communities in the area. Bude to Exeter commute? £742.50/yr ! connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
In our isolated rural community, £742.50/yr extra in taxes for commuters to our nearest city. It's completely unacceptable that some of the poorest and least served areas will pay the most tax now because of it. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
You don't mention that for any of these, those who live in isolated rural areas, +£742.50/yr for just commuting to our nearest city, never along going elsewhere. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Rural communities in Dorset are likely to get hit hard, like us in North Cornwall, by any pay-per-mile tax connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
✅Isolated rural communities isolated further by unfair increase in taxes to be able to commute to their local city for work, education and services. Bude > Exeter £742.50/yr more, thanks! connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
❎ Paying an extra £742.50/yr in taxes for our isolated rural community to access the nearest city. Thank you! connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
✅Isolated rural communities isolated further by unfair increase in taxes to be able to commute to their local city for work, education and services. Bude > Exeter £742.50/yr more, thanks! connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
👎Makes isolated rural communities more isolated by charging £742.50/yr new tax to access our nearest city for work and education, while buses are being scrapped connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
It's a great budget for city folk and those with access to public transport. It unfairly hits isolated rural communities down here by adding £742.50/yr tax for commuting to our nearest city for work and education. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Rural communities walloped by pay-per-mile taxes -> £742.50/yr here to commute to our nearest city, with no public transport alterative due to cuts. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
No one is covering how the most isolated rural communities will be massively affected by pay-per-mile taxes, while their buses are being slashed. £742.50 per year extra to commute to our nearest city from North Cornwall. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
New +£742.50/yr in tax for people in our area to commute for work and education in the nearest city, while bus services are being stripped. It's shocking. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Does it make up for the new +£742.50/yr in tax for people in our area to commute for work and education in the nearest city? Your taxing the most isolated rural communities more. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Does it make up for the new +£742.50/yr in tax for people in our area to commute for work and education in the nearest city? Your taxing the most isolated rural communities more. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
But creates a "isolated rural community" tax. New tax of +£742.50/yr for those of us in North Cornwall to access jobs and education in our nearest city, while buses are being scrapped. Living standards down here, more out of our pockets, and more isolated than ever. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Could you do a shout out though for some of the poor isolated rural communities that now have to pay £742.50 in new tax to access the nearest city for work and education? connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Fair that our isolated rural community has to pay more than £742.50 in new taxes to access the local city for jobs, education and for the hospital? Doesn't sound very fair. We don’t ask sick people to pay more tax to use the NHS etc. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Katja Diehl @katjadiehl.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Iowa City eliminated bus fares in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions from cars and encouraging people to take public transit. The two-year pilot program proved so popular that the City Council voted this summer to extend it another year. archive.ph/shcex#select...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Yes, please read the link. We're against that too now the guise is off. Any pay-per-mile tax unfairly taxes those who are cut off from alternative options and where the government has closed local services like maternity care etc.
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Don't forget the tax for isolated rural communities to encourage them to stay more isolated and pay more than your average city community! connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
There's a £742.50 stealth tax now on our isolated rural community of North Cornwall, to access jobs and education in our nearest city, with a slash in bus services to put the nail in our coffin connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Missed how any pay-per-mile taxes unfairly tax those who are already in some of the most isolated rural communities! (While their bus services are being cut btw!) connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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Katie Goode @mrsgame.dev · 26/11/2025
So not only rural communities pay more, but the current consultation says they ARE charging for road use outside of the UK too, looking at embedding tech, and asking MOT garages to do a load of admin. Why not just make Toll roads already? Automatic tolls with RFIDs and Direct Debts (i.e. Fulli)
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Connect Bude @connectbude.co.uk · 26/11/2025
Feels like it to the most isolated and rural communities like North Cornwall. +£742.50/yr more now to travel to our local city for jobs and education, while stripping back bus services to be unusable and no rail connectivity. connectbude.co.uk/2025/11/firs...
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First Bus leaves Cornwall & Pay-Per-Mile Tax replaces it - Connect Bude
Earlier this month First Bus announced it will end all its operations in Cornwall by 14 February 2026, citing relentless financial pressure: rising operating costs outpacing inflation, steeply falling...
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