Emerton Village Shops Are Suffering From Deleted Bus Services

Today, I had been promoting our cause to a few shop owners in Emerton Village late in the afternoon and struck gold. Well when I mean I struck gold, I had spoken to a fairly new small businessman who claims that the deletion of bus services has affected his business and also the Emerton Village Centre as well.

Steve from Family Meats ,Shop 40, Emerton Village was relieved to meet myself. He explained that the 755 bus service stop outside on the corner of Jersey and Popondetta Roads Emerton and advised that lots of patrons then enetered the Emerton Village from that entrance would go to the Post Office ( which acts as an agent for Commonwealth Bank of Australia), withdraw funds for shopping and proceed to shop to purchase goods. He then had customers that reached his shop to purchase items.

Steve also claims that due to buses not stopping on the corner of Jersey and Popondetta Roads coming from Shalavey to Moiunt Dtuitt (which is since the introduction of the new time tables 11/10/2009) customers that caught these 755 buses before are not coming in to Emerton village thus providing a reduction of customers purchasing his goods by 20 to 25 percent. What he is doing to retain his customers is offering a delivery service after hours, with a reasonable purchase. Customers from Surrounding suburbs: Wilmott, Shalvey, Bidwill, Lethbridge Park, Whalan used to get the bus to his shop, now they can not make it to Emerton Village. He has noticed that with the new time table passengers are being ferried more to and from Plumpton Shops and Mount Druitt Westfield Shops and less to the medium shopping centres like Emerton and even smaller suburban shops, around the area. As there is a chamber of commerce in Emerton Village to discuss issues with relevant government bodies he feels no one is listening.

Since the new bus time tables have been introduced 11/10/2009, there has been 2 shops close down to reduction of customers and another shop will be closing next week.

When I explained to Steve about one of our community members issue regarding purchasing eggs (refer article called 'Not Much Of A Happy Birthday!' dated 12/1/2010) - he advised he could have helped that community member if she had called him - he would have been happy to assist her as he also sells eggs.

he will speak to other business owners in the village about our cause as he wants the Busways bus 755 service to be brought back so that he is customers can come back to him. Now I wish that he could stoke gold by the return of customers and buses for his business and other small bushiness in Emerton Village Shops.

Contact details for Steve is 02 9628 6055.

Again, I seem to see a trend around our small to medium size shops that the NSW Government and bus operaters are turning buses away from these places and when to you go to Mount Druitt their is that Mini Bus Depot at Mount Druitt Interchange, out there - Up to twelve buses are waiting - waiting to go back into service? and then there the side streets, sometimes buses at the corner of Belmore Road and North Parade. Do we have more buses than bus services?