One major change to schedules include the Westbus route through the Windsor shopping precinct which has left many older passengers distressed.

New Westbus timetables came into effect on Sunday, October 11, which changed the route of the 668 bus into Windsor, mainly due to safety concerns of bus drivers about the narrowness of George Street.

"The State Government has used a new rail timetable as an excuse to cancel existing bus routes and many school bus services," Mr Williams said. "The lack of community consultation has meant hundreds of children and commuters have been left without buses, similar to the problems we experienced earlier this year in Region 4."

Mr Williams said parents of children with disabilities depending on bus route 677 from Richmond to Penrith had contacted him due to the service being removed "without reason."

The new route no longer runs up George Street past Riverview Shopping Centre and Target, and on Monday and Tuesday last week, several older shoppers approached management at Riverview to say they were unable to catch the bus there anymore as it now dropped them off at Kable Street, some distance from the centre.

"Ebenezer Public School has also lost school buses," Mr Williams said. Up to 24 children no longer have a school bus from remote rural areas to this school and one of the buses, which services the school in the morning, now arrives 10 minutes after school starts

"Diana Toffoli of Freemans Reach wrote to me because her 11-year-old son attends North Richmond Public School and finishes at 3pm. He used to catch a bus at 3.24pm that took him directly home. He now... arrives home, one hour and 45 minutes after the school bell for a total distance travelled of less than five kilometres."