that's the damning verdict of the county councils network, which represents rural authorities in englandt more than one in every four bus services has vanished over the past decade. what is on the increase is bookable services, typically a minibus, which only operate when and where users have requested them. our transport correspondent katy austin spent the day on a so—called �*demand response service�* in wiltshire. mid—morning in pewsey in wiltshire. driver andy is on the move. but this isn�*t a bus or a taxi, it�*s something in between. there�*s no fixed timetable, and passengers have to pre—book their journey. morning. all right? yeah. likejulie, who�*s been using it every day for three weeks to visit her husband in hospital. i don't drive, so it's the only way i've got of getting to the hospital each day and each evening. i really don't know what i'd do without it, yeah. on this journey, stops included the hospital, a railway station and a supermarket. thank you very much. bye for now, see you again. all our bookings are done either on an app or phone bookings. so the route literall

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that's the damning verdict of the county councils network, which represents rural authorities in englandn 2010, as a result of reduced services. the analysis also shows that councils in rural and county areas have a £420 million shortfall in their local transport budgets. what is on the increase is bookable services, typically a minibus, which only operate when and where users have requested them. transport correspondent katy austin spent the day on a so—called demand—response service in wiltshire. mid—morning in pewsey in wiltshire. driver andy is on the move. but this isn't a bus or a taxi, it's something in between. there's no fixed timetable, and passengers have to pre—book their journey. morning. all right? yeah. likejulie, who's been using it every day for three weeks to visit her husband in hospital. i don't drive, so it's the only way i've got of getting to the hospital each day and each evening. i really don't know what i'd do without it, yeah. on this journey, stops included the hospital, a railway station and a supermarket. thank you very much. bye for now, see you again. all