Winners and losers
The exhibition was well attended by several hundred people concerned about the future of bus travel and there were some winners and losers.
Peter Wiles from Grove Green had started a petition calling for better reliability on the Number 19, which runs between Bearsted and Maidstone town centre.
He discovered that service was to disappear, to be replaced by a Number 9, going every 30 minutes - twice as frequently as at present. But instead of travelling straight into the town centre, it will loop round to pick up passengers from the Notcutts garden centre and the new medical campus en route.
Linda Batten from Gallants Lane, East Farleigh, was dismayed over proposed cuts to the No 89, which currently travels up Loose Road, along Heath Road to Coxheath, and onto Gallants Lane, terminating at Wilson Avenue.
She said: “They are proposing to stop the bus in Coxheath.
“We shall be completely cut off in Gallants Lane. I rely on the bus to get to my job in Maidstone and a number of children catch it with me to go to school.”