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Free Bus Passes - Travel Tokens - Railcards
Colchester Borough Council Travel Concessions Scheme helps people over 60 and disabled
people to travel more cheaply on buses and trains
You can choose to have a
free bus pass or travel tokens
Local bus companies will accept both
All local taxi firms also accept tokens
You can use your pass throughout Essex
You can use it weekdays after 9am and all day at
weekends and Bank Holidays
Travel Tokens
cost £12 for the year up to 31st March
You get one issue of tokens worth £48 for the year
You pay the full fare for each journey but you decide whether to use your tokens or pay cash
Rail Travel
You can also get a Senior Rail Card at a special low
rate of £16. You qualify if you are 60 and over and
live in the Colchester Borough Council area
How to Apply
Fill in a form - on first application please provide two recent passport style photos and proof of
age - disability and address
New applications can be made at the address below
Customer Service Centre
High Street - Colchester, CO1 1FP.
8.30am to 5.30pm - Monday to Friday
or by post to:-
Financial Services
PO Box 886
Town Hall, Colchester, CO1 1 FP.
Tel: Colchester 282397 or 282329
or visit website - www.colchester.gov.uk
Renewing your bus pass
No more queueing for Bus Passes!
Bus Passes will now be automatically renewed and posted to existing pass holders - photographs and details of existing Bus Pass Holders are held on record at CBC. People who prefer to have Travel tokens can have them posted to them. For more information ring Colchester Borough Council on 01206 282329.
If you have a query - advice surgeries are being held in various local venues. West Mersea advice surgery will be held at the Council Offices in Melrose Road between 10am and 1pm on Monday 26th February. No passes will be issued at these surgeries they are merely for information. At the present time 22,000 people are registered for tokens and bus passes in this area.
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LOCAL TAXI SERVICES
IJK Taxi Services
Local - Train station - hospital etc
01206 385984
All UK Airports and Seaports
24 hour bookings taken
4 and 6 seater available
Lady Drivers available
Prompt reliable service
competitive rates
family run business
RWS Private Hire
long distance - airports and cruise terminal specialist
air conditoned 7 seater vehicle
01206 382950
Tooleys Taxis
01206 384666
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THE MERSEA ISLAND LIONS
COMMUNITY BUS
TIMETABLE
GENERAL
The Lions community bus is driven by volunteer drivers and offers a community service to the island.
LOCAL JOURNEYS
Tuesdays & Thursdays
To hail the bus, simply raise your hand to attract the driver’s attention
09.40 - leave East Mersea (Golf House) and follows the East Mersea road and then via Blue Row –
East Road – Seaview Avenue (southwards) to Charleston Court
09.50 - leave Charleston Court – via Seaview Avenue (northwards) – Fairhaven avenue (southwards) - Empress avenue (northwards) – along East Road to the top of Oakwood avenue (North)
10.00 - leave top of Oakwood Avenue – Oakwood Avenue (South) – Queen Anne Road – Elmwood
Drive – Kingsland Road – Barfield Road – High Street (MICA) arriving about 10.05
10.15 - leave MICA – via Coast Road – Firs Chase – Firs Road – High Street North to end of Whittaker Way
10.20 - leave end of Whittaker Way via High Street North – Uplands Road – Kingsland Road – Barfield Road – High Street – MICA
11.10 - ** leave MICA for return journey to the Avenues & East Mersea
11.30 - **leave MICA for return journey to Coast Road etc
** often combined as a single 11.10 run
COLCHESTER
Wednesdays
The bus goes to Colchester only on Wednesdays and you will need to book your seat.
Pick-ups in Mersea start at about 09.30. The bus leaves Colchester at 12.30 for the return journey (unless driver advises of variation due to tides).
To book a place please ring 07799 204325 or 01206 383028;
you will be collected and returned almost door to door.
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BUSES
WHY DOESN'T THE BUS GO DIRECT TO THE HOSPITAL ANYMORE?
Once upon a time the 67 bus from Mersea went direct from Mersea to Colchester General Hospital. Despite stating the hospital as a destination on the front of the bus, the 67 bus no longer goes to Colchester General Hospital - and hasn't for some time.
Instead - people have to take the 67 to Colchester - get off the bus in Head Street - wait for a 65 bus (end destination Highwoods) to come along (they run every ten minutes weekdays) which will then take them to the Hospital. The bus does not enter the Hospital grounds on the way there - passengers have to alight in the main road and walk to the entrance - the bus then continues on to Highwoods. However - the 65 bus does enter the Hospital grounds on the way back and stops outside the main entrance.
The reasons given by the company FIRSTBUS for this change in the route were that
(a)The roundabouts at North Station became so clogged with traffic it was impossible for the bus to run on time - sometimes running up to half an hour late.
(b) Colchester Borough Council removed most of the bus lanes in the Town - causing even more delays on the buses
Running buses directly to Colchester General from Mersea cannot happen again unless, at some time in the future, the bus lanes are reinstated and/or the traffic eases around North Station. SW
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TRAIN SERVICES
Frequent train services to London, Liverpool Street from Colchester North Station - also to Ipswich - Clacton and Harwich
National Rail Enquiries 08457 484950 |
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