This absolutely fits with my experience as a patient who had to use hospital transport. Even when I was the only passenger, the trip was gruelling in comparison with normal scheduled public transport. In a way I was lucky because I fitted in with one driver, who lived fairly near to me and so he was the default choice when allocating transport forHaving been involved in organisation of a similar operation, an "ambulance" (actually seated) which picked up about 10 patients to take them to hospital for appointments, you ended up taking about 3 hours to do all the pickups, so in this instance the first on/last off child, quite possible living just a few miles away, would need to be away from home at 0600, and not returned until 1900. Delays in pick up occurred for various reasons, on occasion to the extent that patients arrived at the hospital after the clinic they were coming to had closed. In the words of one of the medical receptionists at the hospital "that ambulance pick up service is our worst nightmare".
me. That meant I got a service that was reasonably reliable in terms of pick-up times at home.
Back to the topic - All the DRT services around me in north Hampshire (CanGo) have reverted to fixed timetables.
Has the Commons Transport Select Committee taken an interest at all in DRT?
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