Case study: Gorran Bus

Gorran Bus is a community transport success story

- although it's taken quite some time to get there!

I met with Steven Church to hear the full story.

Running for 14 years, much of the success of the scheme is down to trial and error. Trialling new routes, drop-off points, excusions and timetables became common-place as the scheme settled.

Gorran Bus now runs successfully every day of the week with different routes each day and a fixed service from Gorran to Truro, Gorran to St Austell, and Gorran to Plymouth at least once a week!

Co-ordinating these trips is no easy feat. There are regular volunteer bus drivers, who