WILTSHIRE’S Bus Service Improvement Plan will go to Wiltshire Council’s Cabinet and then on to the Department for Transport by the end of October.
The Melksham based Option 24/7 community team – which was set up in 2016 to work for better bus services – now has representatives in all 19 community areas and specialists too, and is in close touch with Wiltshire Council helping fine-tune the plan.
On behalf of the team Graham Ellis said, “Bus driver shortages mean that some operators are struggling to run even current services, but once plans for longer term improvements are approved, the operators will be able to ‘staff up’ – not a quick task with current shortages of heavy vehicle drivers, but by next summer we should have evening and Sunday buses to Chippenham and Trowbridge, and an improved Bradford-on-Avon service.
“Other possibilities include buses calling at Melksham railway station, and there are discussions on diverting the 69 beyond Bradford-on-Avon so that it no longer continues to Trowbridge, but rather goes direct to the University of Bath, Bath City Centre and the Royal United Hospital.”
Option 24/7 is at
For more information, contact Graham Ellis – graham@option247.org.uk
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