Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
That is what my Daughters letter stated.Even if you just meet a friend for coffee .You see people at the bus stop on the bus etc.More elder.y people will become isolated.More people visiting Doctors as isolation has a knock on effects.Still we have the Fast Track Bus so what is the problem .??We can see the ruination of Whitfield .Well River people cannot access DDC so I’m sure they will be glad of that .
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,097
Cut in KCC subsidies for bus services this year : £2.2 million
Cost of Dover FastTrack : £22.9 million ( including £1.42 million from Dover District Council)
Just saying.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Bob it’s crazy
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I will write to the MP also the DDC Leader and all the KCC member who represent us.Its disgusting .They moved everything to Whitfield
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Awful Sue
We need public transport run in the interest of the user
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
if all the KCC councillors took a pay cut and shared transport to meetings that would help.I looked at the expenses outrageous.Not one of our councillors spoke at the meeting.They have put everything now at Whitfield and River will have no buses.
The Fast Track Bus will be another White Elephant .Look At the Waste those wooden benches ,a cycle track ?Quite honestly Market Square was better in the old days .I think KCC gave a grant towards it?..
KCC Meetings time restriction.No going over two hours .Limited Questions .
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,097
Keith Sansum1 wrote:
We need public transport run in the interest of the user
Not so simple Keith.
A bit like the concept of 'affordable' housing - no-one is going to build a house that no-one can afford. Sod the euphemisms. The question is why are we not building enough housing for relatively poor people - and I include some of my children.
I've just come back from breakfast in Wetherspoons. It certainly is not run 'in the interest of the user'. It was however packed since it provides at a reasonable price what the user wants. All successful business do much the same.
The fact is that the
buses are not being used which suggests that there is something wrong with the routes or the timings or the cost.
Meanwhile the bus companies, unlike other private concerns, have no incentive to improve their services as they know that KCC will bail them out.
Even the Leader of our Council, whose experience selling fruit and vegetables for a living makes him ideal for such a position, should understand this? (Insert emoticon for sarcasm)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
Bob
We may even agree on parts of your last comment.
I think Sue and others have pointed out the routes probably could be one of the reasons for poor service .
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,057
To judge by previous posts about buses on this forum, other reasons include lack of comfort (eg. elderly or double decked bus or wrong type of fellow passenger) and no need/desire to travel to destination X (eg. Dover). Each of these presents the bus operator with an issue: how to finance new buses and how to get the bus back to where it started from without running empty.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Yes it is the routes .I hate the route over Hillside.It was going to change however the previous Operations Manager has moved to another depot.It should never have changed in the first place .Years and years we were able to go via Crabble Hill .I haves emailed the Councillors .The silence is deafening .If I was still a Councillor I would have arranged a public meeting .It happened in my day
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The article is on Kent on line.I love some of the answers .Sell the equity in my house and use taxis .I have long said I would pay a fee each year for my bus ,pass.Some of us have learnt how to cook and make cheap meals .Its not take aways Hom3 Made soup can last three days.Cottage pie a pound of mince several meals .Why should I release the equity on my house ?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,931
So maybe look at a better way of running it
Bearing in mind it's passengers
Better advertised
More info at bus stops
Better late night buses
Lots more that's a start though
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Thanks Bob .We always stood up for what we believed in.I never gave up if I believed in something .
Gary39- Registered: 7 Jul 2017
- Posts: 451
Well sent another e-mail to our local MP and our local DDC councillor’s about how the “Village” of Aycliffe will be cut off from Whitfield where a lot of out of town business’s are including Tesco’s etc And why is there lot of money on the Fast Track bus service to Whitfield and yet our direct bus service to Whitfield has been cut
Also point out that there is no bus route along Snargate Street where there alot of businesses and instead goes over the Western Heights.
Also said that this is another blow that Aycliffe has to endure
But I do not expect much hope
Jan Higgins and Brian Dixon like this
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Well done Sue
It's keeping it all in the spotlight
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,097
Good news Sue. At some little cost DDC have refurbished the Tram Shelter at the bottom of Elms Vale Road.
1. We haven't had trams for years.
2. It's not even a bus stop having double yellow lines on the road and being on a mini - roundabout
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
It looks lovely.
All ready for the usual vandals, it should be moved to a safer area like the Transport Museum something I think has been mentioned several times before.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I agree Jan it should be moved to The Transport Museum .Bob must be DDC elections next year .All this painting etc..Good job its not KC C.They would have fought harder for our buses.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I gather the frail elderly lady has made this .weeks Mercury.Good for fish and chips no doubt.