Please Protest about no Bus
June 7, 2009 by Editor
The campaign to get our evening bus back for Hawkwell has hit an iceberg in the form of the Review Committee for Rochford District Council.
This committee is headed up by Rayleigh Lib Dem, June Lumley and it was asked by Transport Councillor Boss, Keith Hudson to examine all the bus issues that were being raised by the public about cuts in services in Hockley, Hawkwell and Ashingdon.
At the same time I raised the issue of the lack of an evening bus in Hawkwell whilst giving evidence to the committee. At a subsequent meeting with the residents associations in Hockley and Hawkwell it was raised again for reconsideration by Essex County Council.
Essex County Council has refused to switch one of the evening half hour subsidised services through Ashingdon and Hockley to Hawkwell because it would deprive a very small number of residents of Hockley, Ashingdon and East Hawkwell of a half hourly bus and Arriva says that it would place the viability of the whole service in jeopardy.
Hawkwell Parish Council has backed a switch but it is understood, not surprisingly, that Ashingdon is not agreeable and nor are Hockley again because a very small number of residents in the Greensward Lane to Ashingdon Schools stretch would not have a half hourly service.
So the Review Committee at RDC are just going to give up and do nothing. There is no bus at all in the evening in Hawkwell.
If it is not right to cancel someone else’s service, and I agree with that, then Hawkwell deserves its own subsidised service just like Hockley and Ashingdon.
I suggest that residents who feel strongly about this should email Rochford District Council to protest (committee [at] rochford.gov [dot] uk) and also phone and contact the Evening Echo (john.geoghegan [at] nqe [dot] com).
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