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Welsh government provides bus services with £46m in funds
Passengers queue to board a bus in Cardiff

BUS services in Wales will be protected after the Welsh government performed a U-turn to provide £46 million in funding for a new transitional scheme.

Ministers and First Minister Mark Drakeford have said for months that they would not provide any more funding as passenger numbers remained depressed after the collapse of bus use during the Covid pandemic.

Deputy Climate Change Minister Lee Waters published details of the bus transition fund this weekend.

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