11 July 2006
Mobile Travel Centre helps promote extended Ring'n'Ride service 400
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport’s Mobile travel centre continues to tour the west central Scotland area providing public transport information and will for the first time visit Hartwood Hospital, Lanarkshire, next Wednesday (19 July).
As a result of commercial operator Stuarts Coaches’ decision to withdraw bus service 66 Wishaw-Shotts-Harthill, SPT has extended the area covered by the subsidised Ring'n'Ride service 400 to take in Hartwood Hospital and provide links to Newmains, Allanton and Shotts.
The SPT Mobile travel centre will be parked outside Hartwood Hospital’s Gigha Ward between 10am and 3pm on Wednesday 19 July to provide customers with information about the extended area of the Ring'n'Ride service 400 to Hartwood Hospital and answer other transport related questions.
The Mobile travel centre - the only one of its kind in Scotland - is manned by SPT staff who provide people living in rural areas with information on local bus and rail services, express and long distance coach services, short stay breaks and ferry services.
It is fully accessible to mobility-impaired people and wheelchair users and SPT staff are on hand to help passengers with journey planning as well as information on trips around Strathclyde, Britain and Europe.
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