{"id":1878,"date":"2012-06-21T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T11:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcarbon.co.uk\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:52:38","slug":"relbus-proposes-bus-users-charter-for-east-lothian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/relbus-proposes-bus-users-charter-for-east-lothian\/","title":{"rendered":"RELBUS proposes bus users charter for East Lothian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RELBUS, short for Rural East Lothian Bus Users, is seeking the views of bus users in developing an East Lothian Bus Passenger Charter. Got ideas on what you&#8217;d like to see in it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/relbus.org.uk\/east-lothian-bus-passenger-charter\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/06\/relbus-bus-passenger-charter-150x150.png\" alt=\"RELBUS proposes bus passenger charter - click to give your views\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/06\/relbus-bus-passenger-charter-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/06\/relbus-bus-passenger-charter-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/06\/relbus-bus-passenger-charter.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Bus Passenger Charter would be a list of commitments that each bus operator would attempt to meet.  RELBUS are suggesting the commitments would cover at minimum fare structure, timetables and route information, plus related publicity material including information at bus stops and on buses.<\/p>\n<p>But RELBUS suggest it could go beyond the basics to include commitments to accessibility and possibly a set of standards of service such as, for example, punctuality over and above any statutory obligations. Changes to timetables might also involve prior passenger consultation.<\/p>\n<p>As RELBUS&#8217;s Philip Immirzi explains, &#8220;We aren\u2019t starting from a completely blank sheet, as I found this over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bususers.org\/good.htm\"><strong>Bus Users UK website<\/strong><\/a>, but what do others think should be in the East Lothian Bus Passenger Charter?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to offer your own thoughts, please <a href=\"http:\/\/relbus.org.uk\/east-lothian-bus-passenger-charter\/\"><strong>visit the RELBUS website<\/strong><\/a> and leave your comments.<\/p>\n<p>Pencaitland Community Council<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/pencaitlandcc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter-c.png\" alt=\"Follow Pencaitland Community Council on Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural East Lothian Bus Users is seeking bus users&#8217; views for an East Lothian Bus Passenger Charter. What would you like to see in it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,72,87,808,13,177,816,6,822,416,831],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bus-services","tag-bus-users","tag-charter","tag-consultation","tag-east-lothian","tag-first-bus","tag-ormiston","tag-pencaitland","tag-relbus","tag-tender","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5092,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}