PUBLICITY MATTERS
There is great potential to attract visitors to explore its territory by bus, but having moved recently to the area, STEVEN ARDRON says Dumfries & Galloway Council needs to improve the standard and availability of basic information available to the public on where and when services operate
I
moved recently from Hertfordshire to Dumfries and thought that I might share my experiences of obtaining travel information on the bus network in the Dumfries & Galloway council area.
The South West of Scotland Transport Partnership (Swestrans) oversees the provision of bus services in the county. It has a website (www.swestrans.org.uk) which unfortunately has more information on what I would term corporate matters than it does on public-facing information about bus services.
Bus times information is a link to the Dumfries & Galloway website, more of which later. There is, however, under ‘service information’ a link to a pdf sustainable travel map which dates from 2016.
I was able to obtain a paper copy of this map from the Dumfries tourist office. On one side it provides the bus services and cycle routes for the council area as a whole; on the reverse are town maps for Dumfries and Stranraer.
