Quality Bus Partnership delivers new bus shelters for Dover District

With Christmas just around the corner, and an exciting year ahead for the district, the Dover Quality Bus Partnership is welcoming news that as part of the partnership, Dover District Council has funded 23 new bus shelters across the area over the last two years.

Nineteen new shelters have already been installed over the 2010/11 and 11/12 financial years - with four more to be put in by the end of January 2012.

This is part of an ongoing programme to improve community facilities across the area that has also seen new buses provided by Stagecoach and raised kerbs by KCC.
  
Representatives from Dover District Council, Kent County Council and Stagecoach signed the Quality Bus Partnership agreement in April 2009. The partnership agreement represented a set of agreed principles and actions, and a commitment to continue to work together for quality local bus services for the area. 
 
Cllr Nigel Collor, DDC Cabinet Member for Access and Property Management, said: "The Quality Bus Partnership is a great example of successful partnership working, and we are very pleased to have worked together to improve community facilities, and to have provided these 23 new shelters. We continue to work with all our partners to develop services and support sustainable transport for the future of the district."
 
Kent County Council Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and Waste, Bryan Sweetland, said: "We welcome this investment by Dover District Council in new bus shelters, which complements the work undertaken by Kent County Council and the investment in new buses by Stagecoach in East Kent, and demonstrates the value of the Dover Quality Bus Partnership."
 
Jeremy Cooper, Commercial Director for Stagecoach said: "We commend Dover District Council for recognising that waiting facilities are an essential part of the travel experience that make bus journeys even more pleasant for bus users, and rightly complement the significant investment we continue to make in quality buses and improved frequencies."