I refer to Chapter 8 (Transport & Accessibility), Section 8.8 and Policy T1, items 1-4.
Bus services in Chichester are sparse, infrequent and expensive eg no 47 every 2 hours, no 56 every 1.5 hours. So local residents - many of advancing age - are forced to use cars to access town-centre shops and retail parks leading to frequent gridlock. There are also no services to the many new outlying developments - some families on Shopwhyke Lakes have waited four years for a bus service. They are also forced to use cars. Finally many people moved here from larger cities after the pandemic; our public transport providers do not offer any hardcopy timetables or maps (only online); this disempowers residents and leads to widespread confusion - yet another cause of additional car traffic which blights the city and environs.
Evidence from existing public transport performance is that our public transport providers, Stagecoach and Compass, are currently providing an ineffective and inadequate service. If public transport systems are not improved significantly they will not be able to satisfy the needs of residents and the vision of the Local Plan.