Can you help keep communities connected?

Hi Supporter

My name is Daphne and I am emailing you today, as a fellow supporter of Campaign for Better Transport, to ask for your help. I know personally how difficult life can become when your bus service is cut. I want to share my experiences with you and I want to ask you, if you can, to please donate to help people like me who are cut off from public transport.

When my husband and I moved to our Suffolk village there was a good bus service. We would not have moved here otherwise. But in 2010 our bus service was removed.

This Christmas, please stand with me and others like me.

Can you donate to Campaign for Better Transport? Your donation could help to bring back vital bus routes and prevent further cuts. It could reconnect communities and restore hope.

Yes, I can donate

Since we lost our bus service we feel very isolated. It is not how we planned it. If we had the bus service it would connect us. Shopping would not be as hard as it is. With a bus we could get to Ipswich to make the rail connections to see people. My daughter lives in Bristol and my son lives in Essex. There is no direct route to see them.

A photo of Daphne, alongside a quote from her: I believe we need a new approach to bus funding. An approach that does not leave people in rural communities behind.

Can you donate to Campaign for Better Transport today and help them to find solutions to bus funding and provision that work for everyone, including people in rural communities, and bring about the change we so desperately need?

Yes, I can donate

We now have various medical things going on. We were pretty active when we came here, we are not so active any more. I do not think there is any choice except to find somewhere else to live.

Our GP is three miles away in another village. Medical appointments are getting harder. Being cut off from the GP is hard, but much worse is being cut off from the hospital. There is a good community here, we help each other when we can and drive each other to hospital appointments. But it is difficult. We are all reliant on neighbours and friends, all of whom are in their 80s.

We cannot be alone, there must be people like us, cut off from public transport, all over the place. On the fringes of things. And although people might say ‘well why would you go there in the first place’, the facility was there, and it was taken away.

Our experiences have shown me that good public transport is not a convenience, it is a necessity. Can you donate to Campaign for Better Transport, so that they can champion communities like mine to politicians and local government?

Yes, I can donate

I wish you all the best for the festive season,

Daphne, Campaign for Better Transport Supporter

P.S. This festive season, borne from my own challenges with the loss of vital bus services in our community, I ask you to please donate to Campaign for Better Transport.

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