ECT Charity – and Dorset Community Transport, our operation in the county – welcomes moves by Dorset Council to significantly upgrade its transport policy, with the launch of its recent business case ‘Transforming Public Buses and Community Transport’.
The plan aims to use public and community transport to improve the lives of people in Dorset. Amongst a wide range of measures, it will do this by improving integration between different types of transport – mainstream bus, community transport, Adult Social Care transport, health transport and so on. Significantly, this will mean a stronger, actively designed and better integrated role for community transport where it can have the greatest impact.
The proposals, which will be implemented over a number of years, aim to be delivered in partnership with a range of transport, local government, healthcare, education and community stakeholders.
“It’s no understatement to say that it is an excellent, even exemplary plan” said Stuart Sheldon, ECT Charity CEO, welcoming the move. “At its heart is an understanding that transport isn’t a cost line, it’s an engine of economic and social development.
“It recognises that community transport has a part to play and integrates it into in almost every area where transport is needed. It plans to work in partnership with operators and with the community. Put simply, it shares our values.”
The team at Dorset Community Transport, alongside with the wider ECT Charity team, aim to actively engage with the council to support the plan’s implementation.
ECT Charity – and Dorset Community Transport, our operation in the county – welcomes moves by Dorset Council to significantly upgrade its transport policy, with the publication and agreement of its recent business case ‘Transforming Public Buses and Community Transport’.
The plan aims to use public and community transport to improve the lives of people in Dorset. Amongst a wide range of measures, it will do this by improving integration between different types of transport – mainstream bus, community transport, Adult Social Care transport, health transport and so on. Significantly, this will mean a stronger, actively designed and better integrated role for community transport where it can have the greatest impact.
The proposals, which will be implemented over a number of years, aim to be delivered in partnership with a range of transport, local government, healthcare, education and community stakeholders.
“It’s no understatement to say that it is an excellent, even exemplary plan” said Stuart Sheldon, ECT Charity CEO, welcoming the move. “At its heart is an understanding that transport isn’t a cost line, it’s an engine of economic and social development.
“It recognises that community transport has a part to play and integrates it into in almost every area where transport is needed. It plans to work in partnership with operators and with the community. Put simply, it shares our values.”
The team at Dorset Community Transport, alongside with the wider ECT Charity team, aim to actively engage with the council to support the plan’s implementation.
