John Fareham and
John Abbott have been liaising with Stagecoach to try and reduce the disruption
caused to local residents by the passage of service 9 via Burniston Road
outbound and Langdale Avenue inbound.
There are those
elsewhere on the route –the frail and elderly, for example-for whom the service
9, in and of itself, is a potentially vital lifeline. The recent issues over rerouting the 9 in
connection with the roadworks on Bricknell Avenue have brought that sharply
into focus. We have however been holding
discussions with Stagecoach as to whether it might be possible, given that bus
magazines regularly report buses being transferred between one part of
Stagecoach and the other, to find
smaller, lighter and less noisy vehicles more suited for use on the 9 in
general and on the tight turn into Langdale Avenue in particular. They have now undertaken to consult with
their senior colleagues elsewhere to see if it is possible to find such
vehicles elsewhere in the Stagecoach fleet and, if there are, to transfer them
in.
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