DoI to hold back on cut to Jurby bus services
Fri, 28 Feb 2020
The Department of Infrastructure has backtracked on plans to cut bus services in Jurby, after pressure from the local community and MHKs.
It had proposed to scrap a number of scheduled journeys from the village as part of wholesale changes to the Bus Vannin timetable, due to take affect next Monday.
These include scrapping routes 17, 18,19 & 20 on ‘non-school days’, meaning residents could only use the connectVILLAGES service, which requires booking in advance.
This was met with anger by Jurby residents, many of whom are already unhappy with the roll out of the dial-a-ride minibus transport.
Ayre & Michael MHKs Alfred Cannan and Tim Baker met infrastructure bosses this week to express their disappointment with the ‘severe cut’.
As a result, the DoI has now agreed to extend the set times of its minibus ‘flex service’, which doesn’t require residents to book in advance and operates year-round:
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On school days these services will leave Ramsey at 9am, 11am, 2pm and 6.40pm, returning from Jurby half an hour later in each case.
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During school holidays and on Saturdays there will be additional ConnectVILLAGES Flex services leaving Ramsey at 6.30am and 4pm, again returning from Jurby half an hour later in each case (please note the 6.40pm service does not run on Saturdays).
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The ConnectVILLAGES services will continue to operate between Andreas, Bride, Jurby, Ramsey and Maughold village between 8.40am and 7pm on Monday to Friday school days and between 6.30am and 7pm on Saturdays and school holiday week days.
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This service will also be extended to residents of Sulby from Monday 2 March.
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Sunday services will continue as advised in the timetable; ConnectVILLAGES does not operate on Sundays.
The department has promised to distribute a leaflet to those in Jurby, Bride and Andreas next Monday (2 March) to explain the change, and to amend all the newly printed timetables ‘as soon as possible’.
Mr Baker told Local Democracy Reporter Ewan Gawne both he and Mr Cannan are pleased the DoI ‘saw sense’:
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