CEREDIGION Cabinet members are deciding whether to axe Aberystwyth’s park-and-ride bus service.

It emerged in April that council officers had been in talks about the future of the service with the contract due to expire in August, leading to a council statement confirming it was “not planning to renew it”.

Council Cabinet members were due to decide on the service’s future on Tuesday, with a recommendation from officers that the service be abandoned.

Talks had been held between the authority and Hywel Dda Health Board over the future of the service, with the report that went before the Cabinet saying that the £69,000 service was not needed.

It claimed that low passenger numbers, alternative services on the same route, the imminent opening of the Mill Street car park and renovation work planned for Bronglais Hospital that would affect the Caradog Road drop-off point for the service, meant it was appropriate to scrap the park-and-ride.

The report said the council had discussed whether the health board would provide funding, which was ruled out, as well as whether a private firm would run the service on a commercial basis.

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