Representation by First Hampshire Dorset and Berkshire (First Hampshire Dorset and Berkshire )
- Date submitted
- 18 February 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I think there are valid points to raise in line with the economic growth and the potential to affect our revenue growth throughout what will be months of disruption. Whilst We fully accept that this work has to continue we cannot dismiss the impact for our customers and the effect on future growth for the area – we have just as recently as January invested £4m in 24 new vehicles to operate on The Star route (Routes 7&8) along the A3 corridor. This investment was coupled with our plans to maintain and go on to improve our punctuality and reliability along this very busy route. With these new vehicles we fully expect to attract more passengers, impact on congestion and improve Air Quality within the area. We are looking to encourage more people out of cars and onto buses, the impact of the works has the potential to reverse this with existing and new customers choosing the car as they can divert to alternative routes. This will then potentially have a downturn in levels of service which ultimately is not in the interest of passenger transport. The net result being of course a fall in numbers which will not support any future investment,