Stone Town Council has secured a replacement bus service to help residents isolated by the withdrawal of the former D&G bus routes.
Today Stone Town Council have released details of the replacement bus service that they’ve secured following the withdrawal at the end of July of the D&G A,B and C bus services that covered Aston Lodge, Stonefield, Walton and Cherryfields.
[box type=”info” align=”aligncenter” class=”” width=””]UPDATE 09 Oct 2018: Details have now been released by Stone Town Council – https://alittlebitofstone.com/2018/10/09/new-stone-bus-trial-routes-times-and-fare-details-revealed/[/box]
Stone Town Council will be sponsoring a three month trial of four, once a week services between the town
centre and each of the Aston Lodge, Stonefield, Walton and Cherryfields areas. If the services are
well used, the Town Council expects to be able to continue funding them in the longer term.
Services will operate each Friday from Walton and Aston Lodge and each Tuesday from Cherryfields
and Stonefield. A morning bus will be provided into the town from each area, returning after two
hours. Full details of timings, stops, travelling arrangements and charges will be made available
before the start of the services, which is planned for Friday 19th October and Tuesday 23rd October
2018.
The services will be operated in conjunction with Community Link Stafford & District. Travellers will
need to become members of the organisation before they can travel, for which Community Link will
make a modest charge. Applications forms for membership will be available from the Town Council.
Councillor Rob Kenney, Chairman of the Council’s General Purposes Committee, said:
“The Council are pleased to be able to offer this support to residents, after they were left stranded by the
withdrawal of the D&G bus service by cuts to the County Council subsidy.The new services will
restore a level of mobility and access to the town centre which would otherwise have been lost.”
3 comments
S Collins
Stranded is the right word,still anything is better than nothing.The axing of these buses has caused a lot of problems for the elderly and made them to feel isolated!
Stonemaiden
This does not really help the people from the north end of the town or the people from Oulton who are also cut off.
Jill Hood
There will be a service to Oulton once a week too.