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Woodbridge Town Council report July 2010

…I currently have about five to six thousand left to spend and would like it to go on things that will have some lasting concrete benefit to the town, just in case there is little forthcoming next year. [...]

Save rural transport!

If we don’t reregulate I fear the buses are reaching a Beeching situation. And when we lose a functioning service for good we will truly pauperise many people and prevent them from contributing to the economic recovery which we all [...]

Woodbridge Town Council Report June 2010

At the meeting we were told by Deputy Leader that £122,000 was a tiny proportion of the annual council budget. I pointed out that £122000 may not seem a lot to the administration , but from the viewpoint of Woodbridge – where the Deben Family Centre closed for want of £50,000 – it’s a fortune.
Sadly, the Call-in was defeated: by 18 votes to [...]

Woodbridge bus services: the story continues...

My letter to the EADT about local buses

My letter to the EADT about local buses

Report to Woodbridge Town Council AGM

Locally, I was re-elected as your County Councillor in June. This year I have been interested in Woodbridge transport in the widest sense: roads, buses, trains, parking, cycling, [...]

Woodbridge Town Council Report March 2010

March Cabinet

Due to the timing of Easter, there are two Suffolk County Council  cabinet meetings in March, one on the 2nd of March, and the other, later in the month on the 30th.

The most interesting item in the first meeting  was the County Council’s endorsement of the Suffolk Shoreline Management Plan, drafted between Suffolk [...]

WOODBRIDGE RESIDENTS REALLY MISS THE BUS

” The situation is completely unacceptable,” says Woodbridge County Councillor, Caroline Page. “Do you realise that Woodbridge residents don’t have a bus service to the hospital in the evening, or on Sundays any more? [...]

Are Suffolk buses fit for purpose?

(This was published as a letter in the East Anglian Daily TImes 15 Feb 2010)

Passengers suffer, thanks to unreliable bus services

So it took a ‘covert investigation’ by the Department of Transport to reveal what Suffolk passengers have known all along – that First Eastern Counties bus services are frequently unreliable, with 1 in 5 buses [...]

“One in five journeys unreliable”: Suffolk bus service damned

“…A covert survey into these services by First Eastern Counties was undertaken last year by the Department for Transport after complaints over punctuality. Of 454 journeys studied in between March 16th and July 16th, eight never arrived, 19 left more than a minute early and 83 were more than five minutes late…” Evening Star February 10, [...]

Woodbridge Town Council report: February 2010

“…You will be aware that the recreation ground is widely used for football matches on Saturdays and Sundays, as such even with the car park free at these times, overflow vehicles park on nearby adjacent roads, restricting the parking available for residents. Introducing charges will exacerbate the problem as drivers will seek free parking first on the residential roads. This will again cause problems for the residents of these roads and will increase the number of roads and consequently residents [...]