Calls for better transport links in county
Community leaders in Stafford borough have called for better public transport to help Staffordshire residents access attractions and facilities on their doorstep.
Other county councillors in the Staffordshire Moorlands have urged the authority to consider transport links as part of the campaign to boost business growth along the A500 and A50 crossing from Stoke-on-Trent into Staffordshire.
Their comments came as councillors considered Staffordshire’s economic picture during a meeting on Thursday (March 14). Councillor Jill Hood said: “We are really lucky to live in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent because of the amount of attractions that we have.
“I feel particularly blessed to be in Stone because we have many visitors on their way to Alton Towers, the Potteries, Trentham and al the other places that we love to go to. Many of them pull up in the town and spend and it boosts the local economy.
“But there is no, or very little, public transport. When I go to Trentham and I look at the hundreds of cars, it just makes me sad.
“Here we are, talking about our visitor product, and delivering a green sustainable tourism offer. If we had public transport maybe it would reduce drastically the amount of cars going to these various tourist attractions – and in the summer, the burden of cost put on families trying to get to these places without public transport.
