Predictably Southern Vectis will go ahead with their Pan bus plans from Sunday, despite a 400 signature petition - of which 115 came from the 125 houses on the Furrlongs route - and my personal pleas this afternoon.
As these are commercial services they can more or less do what they like under the bus-deregulation introduced by the Tory Government over a decade ago. About time the current government looked at this, in my view ........
The new route 8 is initially for a 5 month trial. If it isn't as successful as they think it will be, it may be withdrawn. Perhaps a boycott would help !
They will attend a public meeting with me in early May, if Pan judges the service to be intolerbale in practice. The community needs to be ready to make complaints to them from Sunday. This is not over yet.
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Geoff, couldn't agree with you more! I've posted about train fares this morning and both buses and trains need looking at. They're still a total mess and it's all down to Thatcher's de-reugulating. We are still allowing it all to be a second rate service.
My childhood recollections of holidays on the island are of wonderful steam engines from Ryde to Shanklin, prior to those horrible ex-Underground trains replacing them. I guess from a tourist perspective, they'd draw folks in now like a magnet.
Shame Geoff, I know you worked so hard on this. Keep fighting.
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