The Enfield Transport Users Group (ETUG) is a forum that meets several times a year to discuss the provision of public transport within the Borough. It brings together representatives of various official and voluntary organisations - including councillors and officers from Enfield Council, TfL, train operating companies, the Enfield Commuter Group, the Federation of Enfield Residents' and Allied Associations (FERAA), the Enfield Over 50s Forum, organisations representing disabled people, several residents' associations and individual residents.
ETUG meetings are open to everyone residing in the Borough - the next meeting is at the Civic Centre on 4th December. Until now Enfield Council have provided the meeting venue and secretarial services, but because of Council expenditure cutbacks both these services are due to be withdrawn some time in the New Year and ETUG will therefore have to find replacements. They are looking for a venue for up to six meetings a year which is accessible to most people, plus a minute taker.
During 2012 and 2013 ETUG collaborated with Enfield Council's Public Transport Consultative Committee to carry out a thoroughgoing review of bus services within the Borough, producing a document proposing various changes. The Review focussed on improving services without the need for any additional buses, concentrating on the following requirements:
- Improved access to hospitals (long a concern of users and heightened by recent changes in the provision of health care in North London);
- The needs arising from the Council's regeneration plans;
- The need to serve the Borough’s secondary schools and needs arising from the expansion of schools;
- Improving access to identified areas of particularly low accessibility;
- Addressing issues of level crossing closures;
- Improving access to Industrial/Retail Parks.
- Improve the interchanges with railway/tube stations
Details of the bus review proposals were released in March in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and can be viewed on the What Do They Know? website.
Enfield Council and Transport for London will shortly be publishing the results of their discussions about whether and how to implement the Review's proposals, and ETUG are planning to convene a public meeting in January to discuss the Council's response.
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