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Local action to defend bus services for elderly and disabled people

The Government's Transport Select Committee have now reported about the changes to concessionary bus services.

Preston Community Transport would like to request that anyone who wants to get behind our campaign to support the use of concessionary passes on accessible, door-to-door and non-profit public transport, to please write to their MP and ask them to endorse the committee’s recommendations.

Similarly, those organisations whose members have been adversely affected by LCC’s decision to prevent the use of bus passes on Dial-A-Ride: to contact their MP requesting they pursue a change in the legislation by all means possible.

The report is from the Transport Select Committee inquiry into bus services after the CSR and, we believe, broadly agrees with our position that the current concessionary fare scheme is discriminatory against those who can not use conventional public transport.

We would particularly like to draw everyone’s attention to paragraph 42; “If the Government genuinely wants to encourage the growth of the community transport sector, it should legislate to permit the use of the concessionary pass on a wider range of community transport services”.

Below are links to both the select committee’s report and a BBC web-article on the report.

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmtran/750/75002.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14480391

More information from Joe Hannett at

Preston Community Transport 

[Dial-A-Bus, Group Transport, Day Trips, Volunteer Opportunities, Shopmobility and related services.]

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