Travel Tokens - a solution for Apperley Bridge?

12.00.00am UTC (GMT +0000) Wed 27th Oct 2004

Apperley Bridge residents could use travel tokens like these

Councillor David Ward, Chair of the Bradford North Area Panel has come up with solution to the problems of some residents in Apperley Bridge who have had their bus service axed.

He said,

" Elderly and disabled people who have bus passes have been completely stranded because their passes are useless without a bus.

Travel tokens to the same value as a bus pass but which would be accepted by taxis could be a solution to the problem. I have written to Councillor Hawksworth whose is responsible for Transport Planning in Bradford asking her to take up this issue with Metro and to Councillor King, the chair of the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority. "

He went on,

"The tokens are provided by National Transport Tokens and could be issued each year to people who opt for them as an alternative to the Metro pass. As well as helping people who do not have a suitable bus service they would also be available to people who cannot currently use trains and buses because of disability.

Locally, they are issued by councils like Harrogate and York. In the case of York, the tokens are worth up to £50 a year to local residents. "