Return of Darley Abbey/ Broadway/Allestree Bus?
“And the city council could also be putting the wheels in motion for a similar service connecting Darley Abbey and Allestree. Leading Derby councillors are set to agree to move the £25,000 plans forward at a Conservative cabinet meeting on Wednesday (November 16).
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and the Darley Abbey/Allestree service would link the two areas together and provide links to the Park Farm Shopping Centre. The options are currently being explored with transport operator Derbyshire Community Transport.
A report ahead of the cabinet meeting states: “The two schemes currently being explored are specifically aimed at providing a ‘small bus’, that is a small vehicle service, to connect parts of communities with no service to local amenities. They will not connect directly to the city centre. But they will provide a test of ‘small bus’, and ‘big bus’ integration, as one of the elements of the National Bus Strategy.”