It All Starts Within the Local Community

Join this webinar hosted by Steven Caulston from Buses in Fleet and follow the journey of hardship and success to help create a better bus future through a community-led grass roots approach.

In theory most people are in support of protecting and saving their local bus services. However, in practice supporting a ‘use it or lose it’ message becomes difficult, especially if the bus doesn’t go their way at the time they need it! …hence a new approach is needed!

This webinar follows the journey of a new approach to turn protests into community events and petitions into valuable feedback to support campaigns for improvements, new self-sustainable bus services and encourage more people to use the bus.

The core values of Buses in Fleet support the ethos that ‘local people are the experts of their own journey needs’. This new way of thinking has led to greater engagement with local people and neighbouring communities. This new approach includes a call to the community to gather the evidence to prove the demand was out there. The response supports the growing evidence that more people would use the bus when their feedback is directly used to improve services that support their journey needs.

Buses in Fleet is a volunteer group based in North Hampshire helping to create a better bus future. The group is currently running a campaign for a new bus route to serve neighbouring communities and the local hospital. To date the collective feedback received, including the number of journeys and times potentially undertaken, is being used to create a blueprint for the proposed route and timetable. The continued support also suggests that this proposal would potentially make this new bus service self-sustainable. …It all starts within the local community.