Using Sudbury Community Transport, or GoSTART, is one way that residents of Little Waldingfield might be able to mitigate the loss of their daily bus service. The scheme, if it gets off the ground once again, will provide dial up transport for people within an eight mile radius of Sudbury, so people in Little Waldingfield should be able to benefit.
There is a determined move afoot to revive this service, which was forced to shut down last year owing to a lack of volunteers. Recently, having visited some elderly and infirm people in and around the Ward who relied on the service in the past, I wrote to the Cabinet Holder for Transport at the County Council, Guy Mcgregor, pointing out how the loss of transport has seriously impacted on their quality of life. Even where there is a regular bus service, many find it hard to walk to the bus stop and have become prisoners in their own homes.
GoSTART has recently managed to attract a number of new volunteers, but like so many other organisations, cannot survive on volunteers alone. Some small funding from the County Council is needed to provide a robust and reliable service.
I do hope that Councillor Mcgregor is sympathetic to this vital organisation, which as a true example of the Big Society in action, will provide at very reasonable cost the very services that the County Council is supposed to support. I will let you know what Councillor Mcgregor replies.
So far I am afraid I have not even had an acknowledgement
