{"id":3489,"date":"2013-03-13T18:03:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2019-05-19T08:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T07:47:44","slug":"inquiry-ask-how-community-transport-systems-can-be-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/inquiry-ask-how-community-transport-systems-can-be-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry asks how community transport systems can be improved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Scottish government&#8217;s Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee is holding an inquiry looking at whether community transport services are able to better meet the needs of the people they serve.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3495\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottish.parliament.uk\/communitytransportinquiry\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pencaitland.org\/files\/2013\/03\/Community-transport-poster3.jpg\" alt=\"The Scottish Government wants to move on debate about community transport. Click to find out more.\" width=\"320\" height=\"465\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2013\/03\/Community-transport-poster3.jpg 320w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2013\/03\/Community-transport-poster3-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Scottish Government wants to move on debate about community transport. Click to find out more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Committee claims that it knows how important community transport is to people\u2019s lives, especially the elderly and disabled who make up 80 percent of community transport users.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee is keen to hear from community transport users and providers on what they feel are the key issues. The Committee wants to move the debate on, identify the priorities, and make a difference as a result of this inquiry. Your views will help shape that debate.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How to submit your views<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The call for written views will close on <strong>19 April 2013<\/strong>. Responses should be sent as email attachments in Word format to:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:ici.committee@scottish.parliament.uk?subject=Response to Scottish government's Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee transport inquiry is holding an inquiry\"><strong>ici.committee@scottish.parliament.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or written submissions to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Infrastructure and Capital Investment<br \/>\nCommittee<br \/>\nT3.40<br \/>\nScottish Parliament<br \/>\nEH99 1SP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How can community transport systems be improved? For more details, visit the Community Transport inquiry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottish.parliament.uk\/communitytransportinquiry\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Sa3TLEodED0?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Sa3TLEodED0?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><P><br \/><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish government&#8217;s Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee is holding an inquiry looking at whether community transport services are able to better meet the needs of the people they serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[807,646,645,373,831],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-community","tag-inquiry","tag-public-services","tag-scottish-government","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","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=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}