Councillor Steve Swift

Following a meeting of Bottesford Councillors, North Lincolnshire Highways Officers and representatives from Stagecoach a new bus service, to be known as 'Route 11' is to be introduced.

The new service will incorporate both the Leys Farm and Valley View areas of Bottesford recently axed from present routes and run to and from Ashby and Scunthorpe three times a day.

The service will be an experimental one and assessed on its effectiveness at the end of the financial year in March 2008.

Thank you to all those residents who have been in contact with me and also offered their own support over the last week or two, the success although small is welcome. 

I am disappointed to learn that as part of a review undertaken by Stagecoach that they are to remove two routes in Bottesford.

The first - the present number 5 service, will now leave out the whole of the Valley View Estate leaving it with no bus service at all. While the circular routes 2 and 3 will now omit parts of the Leys Farm Estate and will now stop running along Ogilvy Drive and Park Avenue.

Both services will cease on 3rd September 2007.

It is somewhat ironical that at a time when the Government are introducing free travel for the over sixities and the Council has invested in improvements to the bus stops on these routes that the bus company choose to take this course of action.   

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I have this week attended two sets of tenants meetings, Princess Alexandra Court (Monday 13th August) and Rossall Close (Wednesday 15th August) where questions have been asked regarding timescales in relation to improvements to their homes.

Both areas are scheduled for inclusion in the capital programme for the year 2011, which for some is disappointing.

With the housing stock now transferred to North Lincolnshire Homes, are they delivering on their commitments as promised or are people's expectations too high and what is required is a little more patience ? 

The opening up of the road to make a through route from Timberland to Ashby Ville has been an issue for some time now and hopefully positive steps enabling this to happen are to begin.

The development of Timberland has naturally created ever increasing traffic flows and other associated problems for many residents in the Bottesford and Ashby areas especially for those living on streets such as Grange Lane South, Bottesford Lane, Caistor Avenue and Timberland itself.

So fingers crossed, lets hope we see some successes sooner rather than later.