Dear Students, Parents, and Staff

The City Council is developing a Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP), to develop a strategy for bus improvements in Stoke-on-Trent. (see below for further details).

Your views are important – Building Better Buses

1. Please complete this survey to share your views; https://forms.office.com/r/L0TNmKT7S6
(The survey is for bus users and those who don’t use the service).

2. Do you live in Leek, Endon, Cheddleton, Werrington? Or on these routes to college?
a. We’d really like to hear student views from these areas/routes.
b. Please attend a focus group On Tuesday 28th Sept at 9.30 in G19.
c. Please could you email ajohnson@sfc.potteries.ac.uk to register students attending?

3. Accessible buses.
a. Do you require accessible buses due to restricted mobility, or have an EHCP?
b. Please attend a focus group – Tuesday 28th at 12.00 in the Ground Floor LRC

What is the Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP)
The National Bus Strategy ‘Bus Back Better’ provides a once in a generation opportunity to bring about real and meaningful change to the bus network, to stimulate increased ridership, and to promote mode shift away from the car to help meet national and local net zero emission targets. The Stoke-on-Trent BSIP is important to develop an aspirational but achievable strategy for bus improvements. The BSIP will form a framework for future delivery of bus network improvements and will provide a basis for the Council’s future bids for funding. In developing the BSIP it is vital that the views of passengers and third parties on the strengths and weaknesses of bus services locally are sought and reported to help shape the final BSIP.