TEENAGERS may be tempted to walk over a perilous mountain in freezing conditions and in darkness after a bus service was cancelled with just one week’s notice.

Residents in Blaenau Ffestiniog are up in arms after their X19 service to Llandudno was decimated, with just one bus leaving at 7.32am and returning at 7pm and no services in between.

Crowds of schoolchildren in the town rely on the bus route to take them to school in Llanwrst and many people rely on the bus service to get to their jobs and visit loved ones in hospital.

Llew Jones Coaches, which has operated the service at a loss for 12 months, has called upon Gwynedd Council and the Welsh Government to provide funding to maintain services, but have not been successful.

As a result, the service will be slashed from next Monday, 5 November, and it is said it will put jobs and wellbeing at risk.

Cllr Glyn Daniels, who is campaigning for the service to be resumed, said: “Many people depend on this bus service to go work and hospital appointments in Llandudno, not to mention the school pupils that go to Llanrwst school.

“From 5 November there will be one bus leaving Blaenau at 7.30am and a returning bus from Llandudno at 17.40.

“How are these pupils supposed to get home?

“The cuts could have potentially serious consequences for schoolchildren who may be tempted to walk the last five miles from Dolwyddelan, which the bus service will still serve routinely, to Blaenau Ffestiniog.”

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