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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. Back to top |
| 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 Back to top of page |
| 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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