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A young woman faces a nightmare four-hour daily commute to and from her job just eight miles from her home in the Wrexham area in a case that highlights the need for transport investment. The meeting of the Wrexham Business Professionals group was told that improvements to public transport links are needed urgently to attract new companies to the city. Rachel Clacher, co-founder of Wrexham-based Moneypenny, the UK’s leading provider of telephone and web-based communications and answering services for businesses, cited an example of a young woman who spent four hours travelling the eight miles to and from work.

Ms Clacher said: “She has to first travel by bus from Gwersyllt to Wrexham bus station where she has to wait 45 minutes for a second bus to take her to Wrexham Industrial Estate, in all it’s a two hour commute. If you add in the return journey that is four hours of this young woman’s time spent travelling, every day. The fact is that the service is not good enough.



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