WHOLE communities in Scotland are at risk of being “cut off” after one in 10 bus routes were axed in 2024, Scottish Labour has warned. 

The party’s analysis found that 190 bus routes were cut in the last year, part of a trend that has seen 1,400 slashed since 2006 — amounting to a staggering 44 per cent of the service.

The hope of a shake-up for Scotland’s fragmented network was raised in 2019 when the SNP Scottish government accepted a Labour amendment to legislation which would enable councils to develop a franchising model, as seen elsewhere in Britain.