First Bus Group have recently announced plans to withdraw their hourly bus service from Martinstown and Winterbourne Steepleton and run the 31 service along the A35 instead.  First Bus are proposing just one early service to Dorchester for workers and a return at the end of the afternoon.  This will leave Martinstown with just the 211 service once a day to Weymouth and Winterbourne Steepleton with a Wednesday-only bus service.

This will cause real problems for local residents who don’t have access to a car and need to get into town for shopping or medical appointments.  Please sign and return my petition which I am delivering to every house in both villages.  If we can get a really big response I hope we can change First’s decision.  I will also be pressing First to come to a local Public Meeting so they can hear first-hand the problems this change will cause.

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