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Centro 19 Jan 11
Users of the region’s Ring and Ride service are being asked to help decide the best way of overcoming a shortfall in funding for the coming year.
West Midlands council tax payers have paid £12.1 million towards the cost of running Ring and Ride this year but for the financial year starting in April substantial savings of £900,000 are required.
The shortfall is a result of a possible seven per cent cut in grant due the financial pressures on the seven West Midlands district councils following cuts to their funding over the next three years, plus dramatic cost increases in items like fuel.
Bosses at West Midlands Special Needs Transport, the charity which provides the service, and transport authority Centro, which funds Ring and Ride on behalf of the district councils, are now appealing to users of the door-to-door transport service to help decide how to make those savings.
More than 30,000 users are being sent a questionnaire asking them to vote for one of two options:
+ Making an eight per cent reduction in the number of trips being run which could see the withdrawal of some services in the evenings and/or other times of the day.
+ Introducing charges in the form of either:
An annual membership fee of £36 – the equivalent of 69p a week or
A single trip fare of 60p (£1.20 for a return trip)
Centro’s chief executive Geoff Inskip, said…
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Cathy Spencer Express & Star 27 Jul 10
The country’s largest ring and ride service is based in the West Midlands and this year one of its depots celebrates 20 years…
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Beacon Radio 22 Mar 10
£12m being invested in West Midlands’ door-to-door bus service for people with mobility problems. Centro are providing the funding for the service, which currently gives 70,000 people in our area door-to-door transport to day care centres and other locations at their request, over the next three years…