The Department of Community, Culture and Leisure now faces a major headache in where to find the big savings it had hoped to make.
That's the belief of TravelWatch chairman Brendan O'Friel after it was confirmed yesterday (Tues) that bendy buses won't be coming to the Island.
The cost of upgrading Island roads to carry the heavier buses made the scheme unviable as a money-saving measure, and Minister Graham Cregeen says the buses they had wanted are no longer available
Mr O'Friel - who was the independent assessor of the articulated bus trial - warns serious issues will now have to be faced:
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