– Could you address the issue of getting from Bolesławiec to Ocice? – Ms Renata, a resident of Ocice (Bolesławiec Municipality), asked us. She added: – To put it bluntly, I’ve been left high and dry. I have no way to get from Bolesławiec home. And I have four children, two of them with disabilities. It’s impossible that there should be no means of transport at all.

Ms Renata no longer has a car; she had to have it scrapped. Previously, it was like a bottomless money pit. – I was constantly putting money into it – the woman says. She can hardly afford a new car. And she has to do her shopping in Bolesławiec. – Unfortunately, shops in villages have a specific price markup, higher than in cities, and children have to be fed – she explains.

– On Saturdays and Sundays, I have no way to get back to Ocice. During the week, the last bus is at 4:00 p.m., and after that there’s nothing – the reader complains.

So how does she get home? Sometimes she hitchhikes, but most often she walks back. – I have such blisters on my feet that they’re bleeding – she says. – I don’t know what to do. I may have to give up my children’s treatment.

The president of Bolesławiec’s PKS, Józef Haluch, explains to “ii” that last year the county-owned company launched a later Bolesławiec–Ocice–Bolesławiec connection. The bus then departed at 6:30 p.m. However, it turned out that in December last year, literally 15 people used this service. – We sold 15 tickets over the entire month – the president states. – I hoped that perhaps more people would want to use this connection before Christmas. Nothing came of it.

The result? The company suspended the service at the end of the year. – It’s not that PKS doesn’t want to operate it; we really do. If there are signals that a connection is needed, we try to launch it – J. Haluch emphasizes. – And then reality verifies everything. In this case, it verified it very painfully. We cannot generate losses.

He emphasizes that during the week, until 4:00 p.m., there are plenty of connections from Bolesławiec to Ocice. PKS is not planning to launch later services in the near future. – And that’s not because we don’t want to, but because there was no interest – the president adds.

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The name of the woman featured in the article has been changed.