Logistics coordinators at the Upper Wensleydale Community Partnership—operating directly out of the Hawes Community Office on the Market Place—have initiated an intensive passenger volume review this morning, Wednesday, June 17. The project is explicitly checking the stability of the Little Red Bus community transport network and localised DalesBus connecting services running through Hawes out to Garsdale Station and the high valleys. Faced with a surge in senior rail passengers and summer walking groups navigating the fells, transport officers are auditing morning ticket telemetry to optimise seating capacities, ensuring that isolated local residents are not displaced from vital medical and grocery transport slots by seasonal tourist footfall.
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