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Kickstart 2005
05-11-05
The Department for Transport has this week announced 43 routes which are to benefit from the latest round of kickstart funding from the government which totals £20million.
Included with the successful bids is one from Oxfordshire County Council who have secured £93,693 to provide later evening journeys on service X40 between Reading and RAF Benson via Wallingford. The X40 was introduced in July 2004 to link three individual subsidised services into a through service.
Thames Travel T564 PNV in Reading on 22nd October 2005. T564 PNV is on short term loan, probably pending delivery of four Scania OmniTowns destined for Oxford - Wallingford service X39. The X39 connects with the X40 in Wallingford and is due to have it's frequency doubled early in 2006 as part of a separate partnership with Oxfordshire County Council.
More information about Kickstart and the other successful bids can be found on the DfT website.
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