Your chance to say "Into Town bus service is great"

What is probably the penultimate step in the move to turn Strait Bargate from a pedestrianised area into a bus route has just been announced by Lincolnshire County Council
A so-called review of the service, by "independent" consultants, has already begun, to look at all aspects of the service, including operational efficiency, route suitability, passenger feedback and the views of the public, businesses and other groups. They have also carried out "mystery shopper-style" exercises.
The public consultation runs from 9th February, to 8th March. Surveys will be handed out in Boston and can also be picked up at the borough council offices and the town's library. It will also be available on the Boston Transport Strategy website at www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/bts
The county council press release quotes the ever-growing passenger figures as a clear spin to show the benefit of the service to people, but even without that, we doubt that the "consultations" will be declared anything other than resoundingly in favour of the Into Town bus service.
It has to in order to save political faces in Boston and Lincoln.
We have said before, and we will say again, we are not opposed to the Into Town bus service.
What are are wholeheartedly against is the way that buses run through Strait Bargate six times an hour, herding humans aside as if they were sheep or cattle, and polluting what should be a pleasant shopping ambiance with noise and fumes.
Surely there must be a way to run the service and leave Strait Bargate alone.

There was, of course, a protest by a handful of councillors last June (see photo above.) But after achieving their fifteen minutes of fame via local TV footage, a sound bite or two and a piece in the local papers, they lost interest, fell silent, and have never been heard from again.

It's very sad.
So far the news has not broken on the borough council website, which was unavailable for most of Sunday due to maintenance, but we hope that it appears there as soon as possible to give people their chance of a say in what is laughingly claimed to be local democracy.

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