Issue - meetings

To consider a petition presented by Councillor D’Agorne to Council on 5 October 2006, opposing changes made to the Council subsidised bus services in Fordlands Road in September 2006.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to :

(i)                 Approve that Officers look into the possibility of improving bus services for Fordlands Road;

(ii)               Approve that bus service provision along the Fulford Road corridor should be closely monitored, and a review of subsidised bus services in the area should be brought forward as soon as possible after the current situation appears to have stabilised;

(iii)             Approve that the Director of City strategy be empowered, in consultation with the Executive Member, to take appropriate action, guided by the aims embodied in the report, to respond to any changes in the situation brought about by commercial bus service registrations, with any such action reported to a subsequent meeting of this panel.     

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED:             That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:                  (i) To respond to criticism of the current service;

(ii) To explore any opportunities which might arise to improve the frequency of bus service on the route to Fulford (Fordlands Road);

(iii) To facilitate a timely response to any unforeseen changes, which may be made with a minimum of eight week’s notice, to the network of bus services provided commercially by the private sector.

Members considered a report which requested them to consider a petition presented by Cllr D’Agorne to Council on 5 October 2006, opposing changes to the Council subsidised bus services terminating in Fordlands Road in September 2006.

The report presented the following options:

• To maintain the existing service in its present (or slightly modified) form
• To restore the service to its former timetable
• To modify another subsidised bus service, in combination with restoring the former service into Fordlands Road, to satisfy Arriva Yorkshire objections to the volume of subsidised bus services in the Fulford area.

Members discussed the proposals and supported a more frequent bus service for the area.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for City Strategy be advised to :

(i)                 Approve that Officers look into the possibility of improving bus services for Fordlands Road;

(ii)               Approve that bus service provision along the Fulford Road corridor should be closely monitored, and a review of subsidised bus services in the area should be brought forward as soon as possible after the current situation appears to have stabilised;

(iii)             Approve that the Director of City strategy be empowered, in consultation with the Executive Member, to take appropriate action, guided by the aims embodied in the report, to respond to any changes in the situation brought about by commercial bus service registrations, with any such action reported to a subsequent meeting of this panel.    

Decision of the Executive Member for City Strategy

RESOLVED:             That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:                  (i) To respond to criticism of the current service;

(ii) To explore any opportunities which might arise to improve the frequency of bus service on the route to Fulford (Fordlands Road);

(iii) To facilitate a timely response to any unforeseen changes, which may be made with a minimum of eight week’s notice, to the network of bus services provided commercially by the private sector.