The White Lion landlady and landlord, Kate and Gary Bell.
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00:00 Okay then Kate, so why did you decide to set the Bush initiative up then?
00:04 Because I feel like people are in another lockdown, I feel like people, vulnerable people,
00:10 elderly people, people with small children, people with just no transport, they're just not able to get around.
00:16 It's awful, it's sad, it is sad.
00:19 And how will the service work then?
00:21 So they're going to ring up, we're going to try and organise some sort of telephone number that can be passed between people and the community, volunteers.
00:28 People can call up and say they need to be from such and such to such and such,
00:33 in which case they would book a slot on the transport, pick them up and take them where they needed to go.
00:39 And how important a service will this be for some people during this time?
00:42 It's going to be a lifeline, isn't it?
00:44 Lifeline.
00:45 Lifeline, it's going to be, people have actually said it's going to be a lifeline.
00:49 And when are you hoping to start it?
00:50 We're hoping to start it this weekend as a trial run, and then operate it throughout the bus service,
00:56 depending on funding, obviously we can't fund the whole thing ourselves for the whole time as much as we'd love to.