‘Rethink community transport’

COMMUNITY TRANSPORT

Councils and community transport operators should take steps to increase the journeys by fare-paying passengers on community transport, a leading bus commentator has suggested.

Roger French, former managing director of Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company, spoke after it emerged in a traffic commissioner hearing this month that 99.5 per cent of passengers using dial-a-ride services provided Accessible Caring Transport (ACT), of Mountain Ash, were holders of free concessionary bus passes. As...

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