The Battle for Ivybridge

摘要

Unlike the police and crime commissioner elections, which suffered a lack of publicity, residents in a small Devon town have been inundated as two major bus groups canvass for passengers. Ivybridge is 11 miles east of Plymouth off the A38 Devon Expressway with 13,000 inhabitants. Following cutbacks in 2008, First Devon & Cornwall provides a fast hourly X80 (Torquay-Plymouth) and a subsidised two-hourly 180 (Ivybridge-Plymouth) replacing its commercial services through the suburbs of Ivybridge. Volvo Olympians still haunt the low-floor X80.