{"id":7774,"date":"2024-01-08T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2024-01-22T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:17:18","slug":"new-dial-a-bus-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2024\/01\/new-dial-a-bus-service\/","title":{"rendered":"New (Dial a) Bus Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You spoke &#8211; and the council can help! Coming to a place near you shortly.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The East Lammermuir Local Place Plan Survey found that a top priority for local people is better public transport. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/2024\/01\/local-place-plan\/\">elcc.scot<\/a> for more details)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">East Lothian Council has agreed to fund a trial Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) operation, using a 16-seater low floor wheelchair bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The operation of the DRT 131 by Eve Coaches will hopefully start on 12 February 2024 once permission from the Traffic Commissioner has been received. The DRT131 will operate to direct points only from the area covered: Oldhamstocks, Dunglass, Bilsdean, Innerwick, Thorntonloch, Skateraw and Broxburn to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 Asda Spott Road \u2013 Access to the public bus services: X7, 253, 120 &amp;130<br>\u2022 Dunbar Railway Station \u2013 Access to train services.<br>\u2022 Dunbar Medical practice \u2013 Access to medical appointments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2024\/01\/community-buss-route.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2024\/01\/community-buss-route.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7775\" style=\"width:662px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2024\/01\/community-buss-route.png 491w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2024\/01\/community-buss-route-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Area Covered includes: Oldhamstocks, Dunglass, Bilsdean, Innerwick, <br>Thorntonloch, Skateraw and Broxburn <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason for operating direct point to point is the DRT can\u2019t operate in direct competition to one of the existing services (Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) regulations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service hours of operation would be linked to commuting services Mondays to Fridays 0700-2100. The service will also accept National entitlement cards and Under 22 scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further information will be released prior to the start date once approval is gained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2024\/01\/How-will-it-work.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/eastlammermuircommunitycouncil.org.uk\/files\/2024\/01\/How-will-it-work.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2024\/01\/How-will-it-work.png 601w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/files\/2024\/01\/How-will-it-work-300x73.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You spoke &#8211; and the council can help! Coming to a place near you shortly. The East Lammermuir Local Place Plan Survey found that a top priority for local people is better public transport. (See elcc.scot for more details) East Lothian Council has agreed to fund a trial Demand Responsive Transport (DRT) operation, using a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/2024\/01\/new-dial-a-bus-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New (Dial a) Bus Service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":7778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions\/7777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/elcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}