Nottingham City Council sent this bulletin at 24-03-2016 01:33 PM GMT
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Free travel for concessionary card holders will cease on the Trent Barton Red Arrow service from Nottingham to Derby on April 1.
Under the terms of the national concessionary
card travel scheme, the red arrow service was available to all national
concessionary card holders and not just Nottingham City Council Tax payers. In
the current financial circumstances, this has become unaffordable.
Over 2016/17 Nottingham City Council is
required to make savings of £20.5 million. To manage this, the council has had
to make some difficult decisions to create savings, including the end of free
travel on this bus service for English National Concessionary Travel pass
holders.
The service will still run as normal and
concessionary card holders will still be able to travel for free on the service
from Derby to Nottingham. Concessionary card holders will still be able to
enjoy free bus travel from Nottingham to Derby, by choosing to use other
frequent services such as the indigo and i4 operated by Trent Barton and the Y5
service run by Yourbus. Trent Barton are also offering concessionary pass holders a 20% discount on the
standard £5 single fare to Derby from Nottingham – it will be reduced to £4.
This change to service provides the City
Council estimated savings of up to £80,000 a year which will then help continue
to run existing subsidised services such as the Locallink buses, which help
support the local community.
Councillor Nick McDonald, Portfolio Holder for
Jobs, Growth and Transport at Nottingham City Council, said: “Our Government
grant has halved over the last three years leaving us with some very tough
decisions about how we continue to provide services to the public. The
Nottingham to Derby red arrow service is no longer affordable and this decision
will make savings which will enable us to maintain our local community services
that provide vital links to our residents including the elderly and those with
mobility issues. We remain committed to doing what we can to protect services
that are a priority for our citizens.”
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