I’m very aware of how the bus industry works and how amendments to routes can help communities whilst bringing in extra income, Arriva did exactly this to the 5 LLANGOLLEN route to reconnect Ruabon to the bus network. People also seem to be ignoring my other point about the buses themselves. 3 Active buses in the Wrexham fleet are from 2001 making them 17 years old at this point, completely unacceptable to have actively running. 32% of the buses at the Wrexham depot are over 10 years old, overall 44% of the Wrexham fleet are over 7 years old. Not to mention, the few stagcoaches that operate here offer Contactless payments and dirt cheap fares, their timetables are simply not frequent enough to produce actual competition, the C56 does admittedly used an outdated optare solo, however, the X9 Stagecoach service operates bus model that blows away every single deck Arriva operating Wrexham: