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To: Dundee City Council
Dundee Deserves Better Buses
We are calling on Dundee Council to:
- Restore recently cancelled routes, which have spelt isolation and long and unnecessary journeys for many Dundee residents.
- Introduce new routes and express services that serve the public rather than the profits of the bus companies.
- Bring in a simple price-capped daily fare.
- Speed up the acquisition of electric buses and cut pollution by emissions.
- Set up a publicly owned bus company for Dundee, like Edinburgh’s hugely successful Lothian Buses.
- Create a democratically accountable Bus Authority for Dundee to regulate and oversee all bus services.
As a first step, we call on Dundee City Council to demand the full implementation of the Scottish Transport Act and provide funds for a municipally-run bus services.
Why is this important?
With cancelled routes, high and discriminatory fares, high levels of pollution from diesel and hybrid vehicles. Dundee’s buses are failing all residents, but particularly the elderly, the vulnerable, those without cars and those living in parts of the city where routes have been withdrawn.
In cities like London and Edinburgh, public control over buses has produced a cheaper and more effective service. In Dundee we should follow these successful models.
It is clear that greater public control is the only way to deliver the first-class bus service that we need. It will help Dundee address the climate emergency, prevent poverty and isolation, boost the local economy, tackle toxic air pollution and create a people-friendly city.
Dundee deserves a bus service that works for all of its residents.
