Kirkliston Public Transport Provision - Petitions (Closed)

We the people of Kirkliston call upon the City of Edinburgh Council to urgently conduct a review of public transport in Kirkliston and South Queensferry.Kirkliston residents have long suffered poor public transport options. Kirkliston is one of the few areas where Edinburgh Council taxpayers are not serviced by Lothian Buses. As a result, quality, frequency, cost and lack of integration has long been a source of frustration. Onward travel is not coordinated and is very expensive due to the number of different operators.
In October 2012, despite the village increasing significantly in size, over 50% of current bus routes have been cut or severely curtailed with no direct services to the airport, nor to Edinburgh shopping and leisure complexes. Sunday services are reduced to a single route with no links between Kirkliston and South Queensferry.
Students living in the village are severely impacted as they cannot reach college, as are older residents who will lose daytime access to the hospital.
This petition recognises (1) socially necessary bus services are vital to any community, (2) Kirkliston is an expanding community with increasing public transport demands.
A commercially viable set of services is likely to be possible if a holistic view is taken, but in the interim it is incumbent upon Edinburgh Council to set up sufficient routes to ensure access to wider community resources - this should include temporarily subsidising routes if necessary, but as a minimum the Council must actively encourage bus companies to run more routes via Kirkliston.

Closed

Mark Elder

07/11/2012

21/11/2012

793

On 3 December 2012 the Petitions Committee agreed:To ask the Director of Services for Communities to report to the Transport and Environment Committee on 19 March 2013 on the issues contained in the petition.2) To ask that the Director’s report contain further information on:(i) the housing projections and projected population changes in Kirkliston(ii) the outcome of discussions with West Lothian Council on transport issues(iii) the outcome of discussions with bus operators(iv) the complexities of the tendering process(v) bus fare pricing(vi) potential connections with other transport provision; and(vii) the current position with Bus Tracker in the area.3) To note that work would be undertaken immediately to update timetable and bus fare information contained in local bus stops and to ask that the Committee be updated once this work had been completed.

This petition was considered further at the Transport and Environment Committee on 19 March 2013, 27 August 2013, 14 January 2014, 18 March 2014 and 3 June 2014.

1 <a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/meetings/meeting/2947/transport_and_environment_committee"> Transport & Environment Committee 19 March 2013</a> 2 <a href=" http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/meetings/meeting/3067/transport_and_environment_committee"> Transport & Environment Committee 27 August 2013</a> 3 <a href=" http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/meetings/meeting/3190/transport_and_environment_committee"> Transport & Environment Committee 14 January 2014</a> 4 <a href=" http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/meetings/meeting/3248/transport_and_environment_committee"> Transport & Environment Committee 18 March 2014</a> 5 <a href=" http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/meetings/meeting/3363/transport_and_environment_committee"> Transport & Environment Committee 3 June 2014</a>