Southend Bus Enhanced Partnership Plan & Scheme

In June 2021 Southend-on-Sea City Council issued its formal statement of intent to proceed with an Enhanced Partnership. This Enhanced Partnership is intended to deliver the vision and ambition set out in the Southend-on-Sea Bus Service Improvement Plan 2022 – 2027.

An improved local bus service will help the Council to achieve a number of its outcomes as outlined in Southend 2050:

• Working with the public transport providers to enhance and encourage the use of the existing provision moving towards a long-term aspiration to introduce new routes, enabling wider accessibility to public transport options. Better local bus services are more attractive to potential users through being more reliable, quicker and offering a value-for-money service. This in turn makes bus services more commercially viable, which results in more frequent and better services and new routes.
• People have a wide choice of transport options. Whilst there is a dense bus network through Southend, for many people the bus does not represent a realistic option for a variety of reasons. By getting more people to use buses, this encourages greater investment in improving services or providing additional services, further expanding options to move around by public transport.
• We are leading the way in making public and private travel smart, clean and green. Shifting journeys from car to bus will help to reduce carbon emissions from transport, the majority of which is sourced from road transport. Additionally, people are more likely to walk to and from local bus services.

We would advise you to read the accompanying documents below before completing the survey

• Draft Enhanced Partnership Plan & Enhanced Scheme - Full Document
• Extracted Part one of Draft Enhanced Partnership Plan & Enhanced Scheme
• Extracted Part Two of Draft Enhanced Partnership Plan & Enhanced Scheme
• There is also a folder for individual sections

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The closing date for responses to this consultation is **5pm on 17 July 2022**.

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