The bus would leave Natland at 10.04am, returning from Kendal at 12.45pm. The school bus using this route would continue. But the present five or six buses each way on weekdays would reduce to ONE, and the four or five on Saturdays to NONE.
Cumbria County Council's Scheduled Bus Services Officer Mark Hodgkiss has notified Natland Parish Council requesting any views so he can pass them to Stagecoach. The Council will consider its response at its meeting on Monday October 31st. But Mark was merely copied into correspondence between Stagecoach and Tim Farron M.P., so electors may wish to express their views to Tim as well as to their parish councillors.
This is the notification which the Parish Council received this week:
This is the notification which the Parish Council received this week:
Environment
Integrated Transport – 18 Portland Square – Carlisle
– Cumbria – CA1 1PE – Fax 01228 606016
Tel 01228 226004 – Email mark.hodgkiss@cumbria.gov.uk
17 October 2011
References : C552.12
Dear
service 552 : arnside – kendal via milnthorpe
I have been copied into correspondence between the Managing Director of Stagecoach and Tim Farron MP, regarding problems with timekeeping since the route and timetable of the Service 552 was changed in May and September this year.
This correspondence has led to Stagecoach proposing to revert to a timetable similar to that which operated prior to the May change, but including one return journey a day in each direction to Kendal from Hincaster, Sedgwick and Natland on a Monday to Friday, arriving Kendal at 10:16 and returning at 12:45. The school bus which has always run via this route will also continue to use it.
I enclose a copy of the proposed timetable.
Mr Winter of Stagecoach has asked Mr Farron to respond with his view by the end of the month, so Stagecoach can register the revised timetable to start in January. I would be grateful for any views that your Parish Council has, so I can pass them to Stagecoach. You may wish to copy these to Mr Farron’s office to help him with his response.
When considering a response, please consider which trips are of real value to your community, without which there will be serious inconvenience if the revised timetable is implemented, rather than those are just occasionally useful. I have asked Stagecoach to provide me with loading data which will show journeys that are regularly carrying passengers from the villages which would be bypassed.
Yours sincerely
Mark Hodgkiss
Scheduled Bus Services Officer