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PDF 82 KBVenue: Committee Room 1, Town Hall, Chorley
Contact: Dianne Scambler
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Declarations of Any Interests Members are reminded of their responsibility to declare any pecuniary interest in respect of matters contained in this agenda.
If you have a pecuniary interest you must withdraw from the meeting. Normally you should leave the room before the business starts to be discussed. You do, however, have the same right to speak as a member of the public and may remain in the room to enable you to exercise that right and then leave immediately. In either case you must not seek to improperly influence a decision on the matter. Minutes: There were no declarations of any interests. |
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Public Transport - Current Arrangements To effectively scope the review, County Councillor John Fillis, Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport and Tony Moreton, Assistant Director of Transport from Lancashire County Council will be talking to the Group on the following aspects of public transport: • Current service provision across the borough • Proposed changes to services, following recent consultation • The difficulties regarding the provision of services in rural areas • Community travel (issues with volunteering)
Minutes: County Councillor John Fillis, Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport and Tony Moreton, Assistant Director of Sustainable Transport for Lancashire County Council attended the meeting to give the Group and overview of the following: · Current service provision across the borough · Proposed changes to services, following recent consultation · The difficulties regarding provision of services in rural area · Community Travel (issues with volunteering)
Current bus service provision across the borough consists of a mixture of commercial and subsidised routes. Commercial routes (80%) are those operated for profit and include:
There are three main bus operators in Chorley, Stage Coach, Arriva and Transdev that provide their services on a number of bus routes in and around Chorley.
Subsidised routes (20%) are provided by Lancashire County Council and they currently spend around £800,000 per annum to provide this service for the residents of Chorley. 20 services are provided that are a mixture of daytime, evening and rural including:
County Councillor Fillis talked to the Group about the proposed changes to the service. Following recent announcements by the government over future funding, the County Council now needed to find a further estimated savings of £300m between 2014 and 2018. This meant that they needed to undertake a Network review of all the current bus services. The review was expected to take around 18 months to complete and Chorley, South Ribble and Preston would be combined into one area in line with the bus routes offered by the commercial bus companies. The review is in its early stages.
It was explained that they spent approximately £7m per year subsidising local bus services and that the current assessment of contracts is based on a financial criteria where 40% of the cost of operation should be met through passenger revenue. This way of ranking could result in those contracts that underperform financially being more likely to be withdrawn irrespective of the community needs that they fulfil.
To take into account the priorities set out in the Local Transport Plan, the county council was proposing to revise the criteria to measure services in a more sustainable way. Each subsidised local bus service ... view the full minutes text for item 14.PT.2 |