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Nine post buses planned in South East
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• Nine new post bus routes — the first beginning next week — are being developed by the Post Office's south-eastern region. In an announcement this week, the PO indicates that a route at Dorking, Surrey, will start operation next Thursday.
The region's first post bus route is at Canterbury (described in CM March 9). It has been operating for nine months and is now carrying an average of 50 passengers each week. A subsidy thought to be about 4200 per year is being paid.
The Dorking service, which will serve the villages of Coldharbour and Ockley, will operate three times a day. The area
is not served by any public transport at present.
The third route, which is expected to begin in September, will connect Oxted and Lingfield, also in Surrey. It will operate three times a day on five days a week. Three more services are being planned in the Eastbourne area and the remaining routes being studied are understood to be in Kent. All should be operating by next spring.
The services will, like the one at Canterbury, be operated by 11-seat Chrysler vehicles, converted to psv standards by Rootes of Maidstone Ltd.