The contract renewal will provide stability to the service.
SPT’s operations committee has awarded a new fi ve-year contract to maintain local bus services across Arran worth an estimated total contract value of £4.2 million.
Councillor Donald Reid, the North Ayrshire representative on SPT, and the operations committee welcomed the safeguarding of the vital bus links throughout the year, saying: ‘Without this subsidy its unlikely that users would fi nd the service affordable or maintaining services over the winter.’ Services will continue to be provided by Western Buses, part of Stagecoach West Scotland, who were the sole tenderer.