Derek Deedman

Derek Deedman recently attended a joint meeting of the five South Horsham market towns community partnerships, to put the case to the County Cabinet Member for Highways & Transport for better public transport. The current problems Derek raised included: -

*the one and half hour gap in the 2A bus service from Shoreham to Steyning in the late afternoon,

*the requirement for Small Dole residents to wait nearly an hour in Upper Beeding for the connection between the 100 and 2A Services if they wished to go to/from Shoreham and Worthing,

*the lack of a direct bus to Worthing throughout the day, and

*the lack of limited stop peak time services to both Brighton and Worthing for people going to work or attending University or College.

Derek said, “Although the Cabinet Member agreed to look at the Upper Beeding connection between the 100 and 2A bus services he made no other commitments.

“It is very disappointing that at a time when we should be tackling climate change by encouraging more people to use the buses rather than their cars, that the Tory-run County Council is not investigating what extra bus services would encourage people out of their cars and is not providing sufficient additional funds to improve the existing provision of public transport.”