HUNDREDS of Dwyfor residents have been victims of a “disappearing bus service” which has left vulnerable passengers “stranded”, it is claimed.

The chair of Porthmadog Town Council, Cllr Simon Brooks, has branded the loss of bus services and lack of information about the service’s future as “diabolical” as two villages have “been completely cut off”.

Residents in Borth-y-Gest and Morfa Bychan have been left without any public transportation since the new year when Express Motors lost its operating licence.

Presently, Gwynedd Council is operating a skeleton service until the situation can be properly resolved but a percentage of passengers in remote areas – many of them elderly or infirm – have been left without their vital transport links.

Gwynedd Council has stated it is doing “everything possible” to run as many services as it can, but a lack of suitable vehicles has restricted what they can do.

Express Motors will apply for a new licence on 17 January in front of the traffic commissioner for Wales but what will happen until then is unclear.

Cllr Brooks is not only annoyed that his ward has been left with no services but is furious at the lack of information available.

“I am extremely unhappy, as are people in Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan and Porthmadog at the failure to provide a bus service this week, especially as there is an absolute lack of information about the future – it’s completely unacceptable.

“The situation is diabolical in a rural village with a large elderly population. It hits the low-paid, the infirm and the old in the depths of a very cold winter.

Read the full story in today’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News