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To: Somerset County Council
Save the Dinder Bus!
Work with FirstBus (or another bus provider) on behalf of the people of Dinder and the surrounding area to ensure that the village continues to have a bus service, and if necessary, "secure the provision of such public passenger transport services as the council consider it appropriate to secure to meet any public transport requirements within the county which would not in their view be met apart from any action taken by them for that purpose" as is their statutory duty.
Why is this important?
Apart from rural footpaths, the only way to and from Dinder is by road; without a bus service then school kids, mobility impaired and elderly residents, as well as their friends and family in the local area, will no longer have the independence the bus service provides. Destroying rather than building environmentally-friendly transport networks, while giving no alternative provision is a terrible step backwards, affecting us all.
