What is the Slinky? How much does it cost? Slinky is an accessible bus service funded Please phone the booking office to check Mendip East Slinky by Somerset County Council for people the cost for your journey. English National unable to access conventional transport. Concessionary Travel Scheme passes can be Your local transport service used on Slinky services. You will need to show This service can be used for a variety of your pass every time you travel. Somerset reasons such as getting to local health Student County Tickets are also valid on appointments or exercise classes, visiting Slinky services. friends and relatives, going shopping or for social reasons. You can also use the Slinky Somerset County Council’s Slinky Service is as a link to other forms of public transport. operated by: Mendip Community Transport, MCT House, Who can use the Slinky? Unit 10a, Quarry Way Business Park, You will be eligible to use the Slinky bus Waterlip, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 4RN if you: [email protected] • Do not have your own transport www.mendipcommunitytransport.co.uk • Do not have access to a public bus service • Or have a disability which means you Services available: cannot access a public bus Monday to Friday excluding Public Holidays Parents with young children, teenagers, students, the elderly, the retired and people Booking number: with disabilities could all be eligible to use the Slinky bus service. 01749 880482 Booking lines are open: How does it work? Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4pm If you are eligible to use the service you will For more information on Community first need to register to become a member of Transport in your area, the scheme. You must complete a registration please phone Somerset Direct on form and return it to the booking office before using the service for the first time. 0300 123 2224 or visit our website at Once registered you can then book a journey www.travelsomerset.co.uk by contacting your booking office at least 24 hours before you want to travel. Trips WWW.SOMERSET.GOV.UK can be booked up to two weeks in advance.
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Chewton Radstock A3 Buckland Chilcompton 62 Buckland A3 Mendip 62 Buckland Dinham Radstock 7 B 7 A 6 3 6 36 Dinham 1 3 2 3 Dinham 3 Coleford A A 4 A 7 3 6 71 Mells 3 A Coleford Coleford Stoke St Wells Frome A Frome Frome 36 Michael Shepton 1 36 Nunney Nunney Mallet A 9 Shepton 5 Shepton 1 3 A36 Pilton A Mallet A361 Mallet 61 A3 9Trudoxhill 9 5 5 Trudoxhill Batcombe 3 B 3 A 3 A 0 Upton Noble 2 9 09 2 Glastonbury 3 7 Maiden B 3 7 Batcombe 3 A A Bradley 7 Maiden Bruton 3 Batcombe Upton Noble Upton Noble A Bradley Destination: Frome Destination: Frome, Shepton Mallet Destination: Shepton Mallet
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Peasedown Wellow B A 3 St John Trowbridge 1 3 3 Chewton 6 4 Midsomer Radstock Norton A366 Mendip Norton Writhlington St Philip B Chilcompton 6 3 36 11 Rode Priddy A 0 1 A Binegar A36 37 1 Coleford 9 37 Faulkland 3 A A Beckington A3 Buckland Stoke St 62 Wookey Dinham Wells Michael 1 B3 Shepton 6 099 A3 Coleford A Mallet 3 North 0 6 9 0 3 Wootton Mells B Pilton Frome Chapmanslade
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