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YORK’S former transport boss has warned the city is in danger of 'wasting' a ‘large part’ of its £17.3 million of government bus improvement funding.

Former Green councillor Andy D’Agorne, who was the city’s executive member for transport until he lost his seat at the last election, said York’s ‘Enhanced Bus Partnership’ was ‘failing to deliver on key measures’ more than a year after it was set up.

He also hit out at ‘secrecy’ in the way the funding was being spent – with decisions being made at Operational Board meetings which were effectively a ‘private conversation between bus company representatives and council officers’.

 

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