What is the Slinky? How much does it cost? Slinky is an accessible bus service funded Please phone the booking office to check Mendip 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. If you have reasons such as getting to local health a companion element on your bus pass your appointments or exercise classes, visiting companion can also travel with you for free. friends and relatives, going shopping or for Somerset Student County Tickets are also social reasons. You can also use the Slinky valid on Slinky services. as a link to other forms of public transport. Somerset County Council’s Slinky Service is Who can use the Slinky? operated by: You will be eligible to use the Slinky bus Mendip Community Transport, MCT House, if you: Unit 10a, Quarry Way Business Park, • Do not have your own transport Waterlip, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 4RN • Do not have access to a public bus service [email protected] • Or have a disability which means you www.mendipcommunitytransport.co.uk cannot access a public bus Parents with young children, teenagers, Services available: students, the elderly, the retired and people Monday to Friday excluding Public Holidays with disabilities could all be eligible to use Booking number: the Slinky bus service. 01749 880482 How does it work? Booking lines are open: If you are eligible to use the service you will Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4pm first need to register to become a member of the scheme. You must complete a registration For more information on Community form and return it to the booking office Transport in your area, before using the service for the first time. please phone Somerset Direct on 0300 123 2224 Once registered you can then book a journey or visit our website at by contacting your booking office at least www.movingsomersetforward.co.uk 24 hours before you want to travel. Trips WWW.SOMERSET.GOV.UK can be booked up to two weeks in advance. www.movingsomersetforward.co.uk Areas served each day of the week as follows: West Bus East Bus Bleadney East Horrington Westbury Sub Babington Great Elm Newbury Chewton Mendip Emborough Mendip Buckland Dinham Kilmersdon Nunney Monday Coxley Godney West Horrington Chantry Leigh On Mendip Trudoxhill Coxley Wick Green Ore Wookey Coleford Little Green Upton Noble Draycott Henton Wookey Hole Downhead Little Keyford Vobster Dulcote Priddy Yarley Elliot’s Green Lower Whatley Wanstrow Easton Rodney Stoke Gare Hill Mells Witham Friary Destination Wells Frome Coxley Dulcote Cranmore East Cranmore Nunney Tuesday Coxley Wick Walton Dean East End Oakhill Doulting Little Keyford Trudoxhill Downhead Lower Whatley Destination Glastonbury, Street, Wells Frome, Shepton Mallet Baltonsborough Ham Street Westhay Ashwick Dean Milton Clevedon Butleigh Lydford On Fosse West Bradley Batcombe Doulting Nettlebridge Butleigh Wootton Meare West Lydford Binegar East End Oakhill East Compton Parbrook West Pennard Charlton Evercreech Prestleigh Wednesday East Lydford Pylle Chesterblade Gurney Slade Stoke St Michael East Pennard Walton Chilcompton Highbury Stoney Stratton Clapton Holcombe Ston Easton Coleford Lamyatt Stratton On The Fosse Cranmore Leigh On Mendip Westcombe Destination Glastonbury, Street Shepton Mallet Coxley East Horrington Walton Beckington Hardington Philip Thursday Coxley Wick Godney West Horrington Berkley Hemington Oldford Dulcote Chapmanslade Laverton Rode Dilton Marsh Lullington Rudge Faulkland Norton St Standerwick Destination Glastonbury, Street, Wells Frome Alhampton East Pennard Street On The Fosse Binegar Dulcote Pilton Butleigh Wootton Evercreech West Bradley Chilcompton East Horrington Shepton Mallet Friday Croscombe Hornblotton Green West Compton Coxley Emborough West Compton Darshill North Wootton West Pennard Coxley Wick Gurney Slade West Horrington Dinder Parbrook Wraxall Croscombe North Town Ditcheat Pilton Darshill North Wootton East Compton Pylle Dinder Please phone the booking Destination Glastonbury, Street, Shepton Mallet Wells office if you live within the Mendip area but your village is not in the list..