Quality Bus Partnership Delivers New Bus Shelters For Dover
District
With Christmas just around the corner, and an exciting year
ahead for the district, the Dover Quality Bus Partnership is
welcoming news that, as part of the partnership, Dover District
Council has funded 23 new bus shelters across the area over the
last two years.
Nineteen new shelters have already been installed over the
2010/11 and 11/12 financial years – with four more to be put in by
the end of January 2012.
This is part of an ongoing programme to improve community
facilities across the area that has also seen new buses provided by
Stagecoach and raised kerbs by KCC.
Representatives from Dover District Council, Kent County Council
and Stagecoach signed the Quality Bus Partnership agreement in
April 2009. The partnership agreement represented a set of agreed
principles and actions, and a commitment to continue to work
together for quality local bus services for the area.
Cllr Nigel Collor, DDC Cabinet Member for Access and Property
Management, said: “The Quality Bus Partnership is a great example
of successful partnership working, and we are very pleased to have
worked together to improve community facilities, and to have
provided these 23 new shelters. We continue to work with all our
partners to develop services and support sustainable transport for
the future of the district.”
Kent County Council Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and
Waste, Bryan Sweetland, said: “We welcome this investment by Dover
District Council in new bus shelters, which complements the work
undertaken by Kent County Council and the investment in new buses
by Stagecoach in East Kent, and demonstrates the value of the Dover
Quality Bus Partnership.”
Jeremy Cooper, Commercial Director for Stagecoach said: “We
commend Dover District Council for recognising that waiting
facilities are an essential part of the travel experience that make
bus journeys even more pleasant for bus users, and rightly
complement the significant investment we continue to make in
quality buses and improved frequencies."
NOTES TO EDITORS:
Bus Shelters funded for 2010/11 and 11/12
Installed up to December 2011:
1/ Mill Hill, Deal
2/ Court Road, Deal
3/ Coombe Valley Road, Dover
4/ Coombe Valley Road, Dover
5/ Rokesley Road, Dover
6/ Roosevelt Road, Dover
7/ Fulbert Road Dover
8/ London Road, Kearsney
9/ Bunkers Hill Road, Dover
10/ St Barts Road, Sandwich
11/ Mill Hill, Deal
12/ Mill Hill, Deal
13/ Melbourne Avenue, Dover
14/ Fulbert Road, Dover
15/ St Martins Road, Deal
16/ Telegraph Road, Deal
17/ Telegraph Road, Deal
18/ Queen Street, Deal
19/ Queen Street, Deal
On order to be installed by the end of January
2012:
20/ Pencester Road,
Dover
21/ New Dover Road, Capel-le-Ferne
22/ New Dover Road, Capel-le-Ferne
23/ New Dover Road, Capel-le-Ferne
Date:
19/12/2011
Contact: Andy
Steele
Telephone: 01304
872020
Fax: 01304
872300
Press Office Direct Line: 01304 872020
