Dorchester Transport Action Group (DTAG) held their annual Open Public Meeting on Wednesday 12 June 2024 in the Corn Exchange.
The meeting started at 7pm and included pupils from Damers First School Eco Group who told the group about their campaign to get a Dorchester to Poundbury Cycle Route.
Stewart Palmer, DTAG Chair, said that ‘It’s been a very busy year with a number of successes. Including the Streets Alive event in September as part of International Car-Free Day when we engaged and worked with all our local primary and middle schools.’
‘We campaigned on improvements for pedestrians needing to go between our two train stations which resulted in the partial closure of Fairfield Road. We’ve seen improvements at Dorchester South Station. We’ve worked with Dorset Council on the proposed Dorchester to Poundbury cycle route and made a submission to the council’s Active Travel Improvement Plan.’
‘The year couldn’t have ended better when the long campaign to get the X51 bus service re-routed to include Martinstown achieved success’
Giles Watts, DTAG Secretary, added ‘An open forum discussion session with the audience asking questions of our panellists Andrew Ardley, Regional Development manager for South Western Railway, Tim Christian, Dorset Community Transport, and Paul Knight from Damory buses worked well’.
DTAGs new website was also launched and demonstrated. It’s time is to build support for the group by reaching new audiences. It will be more interactive and keep people updated on latest news and forthcoming events.