The end of a community bus service has prompted an angry reaction from pensioners, who say they will be stranded without it.
A campaign is under way in Flintshire to save the services after the county council confirmed it will cut funding by £170,000.
Pensioners in Buckley are collecting signatures for a petition after being told their bus service will end in May.
The council said talks were continuing over the cuts.
Agnes Reilly, 73, said some of her friends and neighbours would be "completely stranded" without the bus.
Mrs Reilly, from Southdown Park in Buckley, said the service was essential.
"I use it practically every day," she said. "It would take me 45 minutes to walk down into the shops.
"If I can get a bus I'm fine. Otherwise - where do you find the money for taxis?"
"They are going to isolate us if they take it away - some of my neighbours are in the 80s and one is over 90"
"We really need this bus. They are going to isolate us if they take it away. Some of my neighbours are in their 80s and one is over 90".
Mrs Reilly and her friends collected hundreds of signatures for a petition within hours of hearing about the threat.
The confirmation of the cuts came on the day Transport Minister Andrew Davies visited north-east Wales to launch an assembly government pilot scheme subsidising bus transport for teenagers.
Young people aged 16 to 18 will be able to travel for half price on buses in Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire.
Pensioners and disabled people already enjoy unlimited free bus travel in Wales under an assembly government scheme launched in 2002.
Mr Davies stressed the cutbacks were entirely a matter for Flintshire County Council.
"We give a very substantial amount of money to local authorities for the subsiding of local bus services and clearly it's up to the local authorities to decide how much money they put in," said Mr Davies.
"As a government were are committed to investing in bus travel - but obviously when it comes down to how much subsidy local authorities pass on to the bus companies route for route - that's entirely a matter for them," added the minister.
A council spokesman said the savings were contained within in a budget report to the council in February. "Proposals will be made available as soon as possible," he added.
Flintshire Council opposition leader Patrick Heesom said it was ironic that the council was cutting its own bus subsidy as the assembly government was announcing £1.6m in funding.
"It's utterly daft for the assembly government to kid people about a subsidy for kids when behind their backs their colleagues were cutting the very buses that they kids might have been able to use," said Councillor Heesom.
In Buckley, James Roscoe, a bus driver with local firm Hutchinson's said he was worried about the elderly passengers who used the service.
"Some of them in Drury would have to walk up the hill. It would take forever. It's just ridiculous," said Mr Roscoe.
The bus company is owned by a local councillor Dennis Hutchinson. Mr Hutchinson, an Independent member of Flintshire Council, said he was informed of the changes in a letter received on Wednesday.
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