Conservatives Save Go Sutton Bus!

Service was due to end in May 2020. The London Mayor confirmed in November that he would shut it down on 27th May. Following pressure from your local Conservatives, it will now continue.

Go Sutton is an on-demand bus service operating around the London Borough of Sutton. Introduced in May 2019, it proved popular and gained many regular users. It doesn’t follow planned routes, instead it takes you where you need to go within Sutton, but the London Mayor planned to scrap the service in May.

Many of you got in touch to tell us how much you value Go Sutton.

The popular Go Sutton bus service will no longer stop in May, as the London Mayor had planned.

We understood how useful the service is, so working with Sutton’s two Conservatives MPs, Paul Scully MP and Elliot Colburn MP, we pressured the Mayor to rethink his plan to end Go Sutton. Both myself and Steve O’Connell our current Conservative Assembly Member raised this in City Hall.

So we are delighted that the service will now continue beyond May 2020, and will stand ready to make the case once again should there be another attempt to remove Go Sutton in future. The service needs to be permanent so people know they can rely on it.

I have raised before how little money Sutton gets from the London Mayor’s vast budget, less than any other borough and a tiny fraction of many others. Sutton is the only London Borough with no Tube, Tram, London Overground, or planned Crossrail station so keeping Go Sutton is just the start of my long term campaign to bring more investment to Sutton.

But as a starter, it made a powerful case that the Mayor’s decision to cut Go Sutton when Sutton already gets so little was wrong. This shows that a strong Conservative voice in Sutton can get results for you. If you’d like to help the Conservative campaign for City Hall in May, please get in touch.

The Go Sutton Website can tell you more about the Go Sutton service and how to use the service.