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 [...]
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 [...]
My letter to the EADT about local buses
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, [...]
” 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? [...]
(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 [...]
