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About Banburyshire Community Transport
Association Limited......
Banburyshire
Community Transport Association Limited (BCTA) is a registered charity
providing, as its main business, Dial-a-Ride services for mobility-impaired
persons and for persons living in isolated areas within the Cherwell District
Council area.
Dial-a-Ride
The Dial-a-Ride
service is a door-to-door service (front door to destination and returned to
front door). It is funded by Cherwell District Council and Oxfordshire County
Council and all vehicles are wheelchair accessible. It serves the towns of
Banbury and Bicester and the village of Kidlington and links outlying villages
to those towns, as well as providing links between them.
To access the
service please telephone the following numbers the day before you wish to
travel. Our staff will assist you with your booking (Monday journeys need to be
booked the previous Friday).
- for
Banbury 01295 263777 -
between 9-00 am and 12-00 noon.
- for
Bicester 01869 320132
- between 9-30 am and 12-00 noon.
- for
Kidlington 01865 374442 - between
9-00 am and 12-00 noon.
Users of the
service are required to become members of BCTA. This entails signing a simple
application form. Persons who may use the service must be mobility impaired,
find the use of conventional public transport difficult, or live in an isolated
village or location without the use of their own car. Mobility impairment can
include anyone who, for any reason, including age, finds the use of ordinary
public transport difficult.
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information please click

Bicester
ShopMobility
BCTA has
successfully run this worthwhile and much needed service in Bicester from the
time it was opened in June 1997. ShopMobility provides powered and manual
wheelchairs and scooters for people who have either permanent or temporary
mobility impairment.
For further
information please click

Group
Transport
BCTA will hire out
its buses, either with or without a driver, to any Community Group based within
the Cherwell District Council area, that wishes to use a vehicle for their own
purposes to travel anywhere in the United Kingdom.
For further
information please click
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