The News and Star readers have responded to a popular bus route service being withdrawn. 

Bus company Stagecoach confirmed it will axe the 93/93A service between Carlisle and Bowness-on-Solway.

Villagers have raised concerns that this 'essential' service will cut off the community, particularly those who rely upon public transport.

A petition raised by resident Emily Camero has received more than 1,000 signatures.

Here's what you had to say. 

Kelly Skinner said: "This is much bigger than cutting off a popular village, this will cut off 17 villages. Not everyone who lives here has a car and people rely on this service and it's a life line to many. To deny people of an education because they have no other means to get to college is a shame on the the County Council and Stagecoach."

Roz Watson said: "Well they cut our bus service the Rockliffe and Cargo bus years ago and that serviced two villages."

Edward Simpson said: "Bus fares in London are subsidised at £1 billion per year so why can't ours be subsidised? If London's buses didn't pay their way would they just close them down? So much for the levelling up we keep hearing about."

Adam Skelton said: "Stagecoach is a business at the end of the day. If a route isn’t making money then it’s obviously going to be axed.

"Things are only going to get worse for bus operators as the government help they have been receiving during the pandemic ends this month. It’s time for the councils to subsidise rural routes like they used to."

Ms Camero stated: "She stated: "With its limited bus hours, the service is indispensable to a wide variety of people and becomes increasingly popular in the warmer months, particularly due to the Hadrian’s Wall walkers and the holidaymakers from the Cottage & Glendale caravan site."

Michael Sanderson, head of commercial at Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire, added: "The harsh reality is that the pandemic has accelerated changes to people's travel patterns and so we have been faced with no alternative but to make changes.

"Cumbria County Council are funding concessionary pass holders on actual usage rather than at 2019 levels.

"As numbers of concessionary travellers have not recovered as we would have liked, this means that the routes are making losses we cannot continue to absorb."