LLANIDLOES public transport users are being “failed” because bus and train timetables fail to match up, a campaigner has said.

George Marshall, of Climate Outreach, said people in Llanidloes who wanted to take a bus to catch a train at either Caersws or Newtown, were unable to as the services don’t link up.

Mr Marshall, who has raised his concerns over the failure to integrate the services with Montgomeryshire AM Russell George, said: “This is not just bad planning, it’s almost insulting.

“Surely the idea that public transport needs to connect up is what they learn in the first week of planning school?

“But to have a two-hourly service that fails by just a few minutes to connect with another two-hourly service not just once, but in both directions is staggering. It is almost designed to be bad.

“Like many people, we only have one car in our family, which is often used by my wife. I take the train regularly for my work and face heavy additional costs with getting taxis.

“There are many people from Llanidloes and Llangurig who take the train to work who also face this problem or find they have to have an extra car, and there are school students heading to sixth-form college in Shrewsbury who need to take the train to get to college in time, but have to organise lifts to get them to the train station.”