Further written evidence from Cllr
A Turpin, South Somerset District Council (BUS 84a)
Severance of 30A evening and Sunday bus service—linking
Axminster (Railway Station) Chard, Ilminster and Taunton including
the main District General Hospital, Paddington Line/South West
railway station and the National Express bus service.
Reference my earlier correspondence of 21 March 2011.
I have since been contacted by another distressed
resident, a Mr K Roberts. He is unable to drive and is employed
at the Little Chef near Ilminster. Using the bus in both directions,
he is often required to do an evening shift and will on these
occasions need to get the last bus back.
He has been told by his line manager that he could
well lose his job if he is unable to get home as a result of the
loss of our evening bus service.
I have contact details for some of those with learn
difficulties in this area who will, from and including 17 April,
be confined to Chard on a Sunday. They have, until now, been using
this service every Sunday! (I meet them on my Sunday travels.)
This is pitiful.
April 2011
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