Bus passenger numbers in Shropshire fail to recover to pre-pandemic levels
Passengers across Shropshire took more than six million bus journeys last year, but figures remain below pre-coronavirus levels.
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Across England, 3.6 billion journeys were taken last year, just a seven per cent rise on the year before but well below the 4.1 billion taken before the pandemic.
The Campaign for Better Transport said service provision and frequency must be improved to see more people using the bus.
New figures from the Department for Transport show passengers in Telford and Wrekin took 3.4 million bus journeys in the year to March. This was up from 3.3 million the year before, but was below pre-pandemic levels of 3.8 million.
In the Shropshire Council area, passengers took 2.7 million bus journeys, in line with the year before but below the pre-pandemic levels of 4.2m.
