Dorset passengers to have their say on local bus services
In response to the consultations on public transport being run across Wiltshire and Dorset, Bus Users UK is holding a series of Your Bus Matters events in Dorset. Each event is open to the public, and will give passengers in the region the chance to have their say on proposed cuts to local services.
Dorset County Council has been invited to send representatives and visitors will also have the opportunity to speak direct to their local bus operators. The three Your Bus Matters events are being held on:
Wednesday 3 February –
Bridport Bus Station, Tannery Road from 10am – 2pm
Thursday 4 February –
Shaftesbury High Street bus stop (outside Hine and Parsons) from 10am to 1pm
Blandford Forum opposite Corn Exchange (outside Clarks) from 2pm to 5pm
At each event, passengers using Class 2 mobility scooters will be able to get hold of a ‘permit to travel’, the permission needed to carry a mobility scooter on board a bus.
Bus Users, a non-profit organisation that champions the interests of bus and coach passengers, will be running further events across Wiltshire over the next few weeks.
To find out more about these events and the work of Bus Users visit: www.bususers.org
Further information on the Dorset consultation, which ends on 8 February, can be found at: https://consultationtracker.dorsetforyou.com/00,consultation,12145,330,00.htm
To find out more about mobility scooter assessments visit: http://www.transportforall.org.uk/news/newregulations-on-scooters-on-buses
For more information contact Vicki Pulman on 01622 816737 / 07785 768580
Notes
Bus Users is an independent group which champions the interests of bus and coach users and campaigns for better bus and coach services.
We have the ear of all the major bus companies and a lot of the smaller ones too, of their trade organisation and of the Government and local authorities.
We operate a complaints appeals service for bus users who are dissatisfied with the response they have had from bus companies, and we run events for bus users to meet their local bus company management and local authority staff. We act as a support organisation for local bus users groups.