{"id":1430,"date":"2023-02-07T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2023-02-07T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T11:15:55","slug":"bus-service-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/2023\/02\/07\/bus-service-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus Service Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chew Valley Area Forum Climate &amp; Nature Emergency Sustainable Transport Working Group are working closely with B&amp;NES &amp; WECA to ensure that accurate information is communicated about changes to bus services in the Chew Valley that will be happening from April.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>LA Facebook Group has been created as a space to gather a community of people wanting to use public transport in the Chew Valley, where we can disseminate information &#8216;from the horses mouth&#8217; of our regular contacts with B&amp;NES &amp; WECA. We are now having joint meetings with them weekly (and at the moment several phone calls and emails a day!)<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/858992922045608\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/858992922045608<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you, or someone you know relies on 640, 672, 752, or 754, please email Jackie\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:jch.221@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"><u>jch.221@gmail.com<\/u><\/a>\u00a0or phone\u00a007900 641 839\u00a0so that we can collate information about the impact of imminent bus changes and link you to support for your travel needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DRT is funded by Bus Service Improvement Plan funding and this is for 2 years from 3rd April. The service needs to become commercially viable within this time in order to be considered for future funding beyond this. <strong>We MUST use it in every community to make it commercially viable within 2 years, or there will be NO public transport in the Chew Valley.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virtual platform also gathers information cumulatively across time, that will be used to consider what services will be needed in 2 years time when the funding for this trial ends. <strong>If your community doesn\u2019t use it the system will assume there is no public transport need in your Parish.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appeals are presently being made to WECA about the 2 shuttle buses that were progressed to tender and bid by WECA but then withdrawn, so we will update you if these get a reprieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B&amp;NES\/WECA are keen that no person, or community, is left behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chew Valley Area Forum Climate &amp; Nature Emergency Sustainable Transport Working Group are working closely with B&amp;NES &amp; WECA to ensure that accurate information is communicated about changes to bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewmagna.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}