Hinchley Wood bus campaign victory!

Submitted by Mary Reid on Wednesday, December 23, 2009

I've been rather caught up with shopping and avoiding the ice, so haven't written much lately.

But we've just had some really good news about a long-running campaign.

Back in May, on my old blog I wrote about the need for a bus to take Chessington pupils to Hinchley Wood School. About 140 children from Chessington and Hook travel out of the borough (as they have every right to do) to attend this school.

They used to be served by a special school-time bus that also ran through Claygate, but Surrey decided to withdraw it because it was underused by Surrey pupils - ignoring totally the needs of RBK pupils. Since then it has been a battle with Transport for London to get them to acknowledge the problem and find a solution.

In fact, we had to get Edward Davey MP, and Carolin Pigeon (who chairs the London Assembly's Transport Committee) on the case.

And now, at last, we hear that Transport for London is going to extend the 467 route via Hinchley Wood School at school times.

A result! At last!

Mary Reid's blog

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Who am I?

I live in Hook - the one in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, not the one on Hampshire -.and blog about local things that interest me, and sometimes about the big political issues as well.

I was a Liberal Democrat councillor for Chessington North and Hook ward from 1997-2010, and retired undefeated.