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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Heather Stewart

‘We’d be stuck without it’: elderly Woking residents face loss of key transport

People on a bright yellow Bustler bus
The Bustler buses provide a door-to-door transport service for people with mobility difficulties. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

“When I was a child I caught polio, and I can’t walk to the bus stop and I can’t stand at the bus stop, so this door-to-door service, it’s just so necessary,” says Annabel Marsh as she climbs gingerly into the bright yellow Woking Bustler.

She is on her way to a daycare centre together with four other elderly passengers, each picked up from home by a long-serving driver, John McDonald, who patiently helps them board.

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