APPENDIX E
Time and Task Limited Panel – Public Transport
Project Plan the Public Transport Review
Which specific areas will be the focus for the Panels review?
Fakenham, North Walsham, Acle and Coltishall.
Cross country routes such as Beighton, Upton and Woodbastwick and between Aylsham and Wroxham.
What type information is to be collected?
Diagrammatic map of bus services across the districts, routes by operator, which services are subsidised by County Council, how is the
subsidy apportioned, who uses public transport? (demographic and socio-economic profiles), figures for concessionary fares across the
two districts, policies of transport companies.
Which operators do you wish to meet with?
To meet with operators after an initial meeting with a transportation officer from the County Council
• Norwich Door to Door (Community Transport)
• First Buses
• Aylsham Care Transport (Community Transport)
• Sanders
• Dial-a-Ride
• Anglian
• Norfolk Green Coast Hopper
• National Rail
• Reeves
• Our Hire
Do you wish to undertake a rural proofing exercise with the Norfolk Rural Equality Council? (Costs)
Revisit this once more information has been collected and reviewed by the panel. It may become appropriate to do a rural proofing
exercise or it could become obsolete.
What has been done elsewhere in terms of transport reviews?
Norwich City Council joint review 2007/08
Cardiff Council reviewed their whole countywide system
Which transport will the review mostly focus upon – buses, rail, community transport schemes, private hire, water buses?
Bus
Rail
Roadmap: Items shaded grey have been completed but are included for information only.
Actions agreed on the 26 October 2011
Time and Task Limited Panel – Public Transport
Terms of Reference Objectives:
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Identify gaps in the public transport services provided (Bus, Rail and Water) COMPLETED
•
Identify services that are under treat to continue or to be reduced COMPLETED
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Conduct a Rural Proofing assessment which can be presented to the County Council as evidence to support continuing services in rural
areas and where applicable invest in them. AGREED THIS WOULD COST TOO MUCH AND DUPLICATE WORK ALREADY BEING
PREPARED FOR THE COUNTY COUNCIL.
•
Review the impacts on access to the SureStart centre being set up in Cawston, accounting for the cuts proposed to the bus services
COMPLETED
•
Investigate access to bus stops in terms of older people and disabled people capabilities, identifying possible improvements to be made
COMPLETED
•
To identify specific problems with public transport services for the elderly and the disabled COMPLETED
•
To investigate how opportunities for employment were restricted by access to public transport in rural areas COMPLETED
Actions agreed on the 26 October 2011
Time and Task Limited Panel – Public Transport
Task
Gather information and send to members
ahead of the next meeting
Responsibility
Stacy/Mary
Supply information on public transport
overseas
Cllr Shaw
Invite colleague from Norfolk County Council
to address Panel concerns, explain
methodology used to determine service
changes and cuts, explain alternative
schemes being put in place.
Members of the Panel to review the content
of the Civitas website – links circulated by
email (BDC) and report back to next
meeting
Investigate what other forms of transport
were subsidised e.g. taxi tokens and other
alternatives to buses
The Chairman to draft a formal letter to LINk
to request information on problems
encountered by people with medical needs
when using public transport.
Stacy BDC
All Members
Cllr Bracey
Cllr Balcombe
Deadline
21 November
Progress
The information has been requested from
the County Council. They have
acknowledged the email and are compiling
the information. The majority of information
needs to be pulled across sections and may
take time to be provided. The maps are
being combined into a countywide map due
for publishing in Feb/March 2012.
COMPLETED
21 November
Links to Civitas were circulated via email.
Panel are encouraged to review their
website in more detail between 21 Nov and
the next meeting. COMPLETED
2pm 10 Jan 12
Tracey Jessop has provided a written
update of progress made by the County
Council of their bus services review. Tracey
unable to attend the meeting on the 10
January COMPLETED
2pm 10 Jan 12
Members have reviewed the website and
feel that the UK is seriously lacking behind
other economies. Members will view the
website again for reference. COMPLETED
Papers 4 Jan 12
In Mr Bracey’s absence (11 Jan) the Panel
Meeting 2pm 10 Jan 12 have deferred this update until the next
meeting. COMPLETED
Papers 4 Jan 12
Presented to meeting 11 Jan 2012.
Meeting 2pm 10 Jan 12 COMPLETED
Actions agreed on the 26 October 2011
Time and Task Limited Panel – Public Transport
Task
How are routes subsidised with bus
operators? County to provide a breakdown
as to which routes are commercial and
which are subsidised.
Investigate if a link was apparent between a
lack of public transport, and a rise in antisocial behaviour
Responsibility
Stacy BDC
Mary NNDC
Deadline
Progress
Papers 4 Jan 12
This information has not been provided by
Meeting 2pm 10 Jan 12 County Council at this time. COMPLETED
Stacy BDC
Mary NNDC
Consider conducting a survey on the quality
of bus services
Stacy BDC
Mary NNDC
Identify which bus companies operated in
each of the two districts and verify if there
was a monopoly on the rural bus routes
Stacy BDC
Mary NNDC
Circulate the questions for bus operators
and community transport providers
Stacy BDC
Mary NNDC
Establish what other areas provide
alternative subsidy transport and whether
the same could be delivered locally
Chairman to report response to his letter to
Link asking to share data relating to
problems of people struggling to reach
appointments related to public transport.
Cllr Bracey
Papers 4 Jan 12
After consulting the Community Safety
Meeting 2pm 10 Jan 12 Coordinator she confirmed that there has
not been a direct or indirect link between
the removal/reduction of transport to ASB.
ACCEPTED
Papers 4 Jan 12
Draft survey questions have been prepared
Meeting 2pm 10 Jan 12 and will be tabled at the meeting for
consideration Questions were reviewed,
final draft to be circulated by email before
sending out. COMPLETED
Papers 4 Jan 12
Operators across Norfolk are: Anglian Bus;
Meeting 2pm 10 Jan 12 Coach Services; First; Konect Bus; Norfolk
Green; National Express; Sanders
Coaches; Simonds Country Link; Coast
Hopper. There is not information online
about where exactly these companies
operate and they do not use LA Boundary
information to set routes. COMPLETED
2pm 8 Feb 2012
Draft questions were discussed at the 11
Jan meeting, they have been updated and
circulated to Members for approval via
email 31 Jan. COMPLETED
2pm 8 Feb 2012
Cllr Balcombe
2pm 8 Feb 2012
A response had not been received from
LINk by the 21 March, the Chairman agreed
to contact LINk again for a response by the
final meeting date in April. COMPLETED
Actions agreed on the 26 October 2011
Time and Task Limited Panel – Public Transport
Task
Meet with Community Transport Providers
to seek their views on providing their
services and the rate of usage of their
service, using the questions drafted and
circulated at the beginning of February.
Responsibility
All Members to meet
with providers
individually
Deadline
Between February and
March. Report to Panel
key messages
Stacy BDC
Mary NNDC
Between Feb and Mar
meetings
Chairman to attend the County Planning
Cllr Balcombe
Transport Development Committee to ask
questions (public speaking). Report back
response to questions at next meeting
Review the outcomes and responses from
All Panel Members
the Stakeholder survey sent out in February.
Agree outcomes from this review
(recommendations)
All Panel Members
Progress
Providers to meet with:
North Walsham
Aylsham Care Trust (PB)
Norwich Door to Door (JB)
Cawston SureStart Centre (PB/LH)
COMPLETED
2pm 14 March
The chairman reported his experience from
the meeting but felt that the content added
little value to this review. COMPLETED
2pm 25 April 2012
Panel Members have been encouraged to
send survey responses to Stacy Cosham
for inclusion within the final
recommendations report.
The recommendations from the review
have been drafted into a report to be
agreed by the Panel.
2pm 25 April 2012
Actions agreed on the 26 October 2011