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Lottery funds could fund rural routes
Local government cuts everywhere including rural bus services have left many remote villages like little prisons to non-car drivers like me, a pensioner.
With all the money of the National Lottery available, why cannot £10million a year be used specifically for community transport to reduce social isolation now and for many years to come?
The idea of lottery funding would be for groups of villages to get together and provide, using a minibus and volunteer drivers, scheduled weekly bus routes to nearby towns and monthly routes to larger towns farther away.
I put my idea to Norman Lamb, the MP for North Norfolk. He replied that he was very attracted by my suggestion in his campaign for better rural bus services.
About two years ago at a meeting in this village, I asked Dan Poulter, MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich,…
