Citizens of a number of zealand’s municipalities are far from satisfied with the Movia decision to remove the printed information from 14,500 bus stops on the island of Zealand.
to display the Movia board of directors and kommunalpolitikerne, what are the consequences of the lack of timetables for passengers, bad Passagerpulsen, under the jurisdiction of the Consumer council THINK, in the last week the danes to share their position on the Movia controversial decision.
the Movia case brief:
the Decision to remove informationstavlerne from 14,500 zealand bus stops were taken in the Movia board of directors in October 2018.
3. december 2018 issued Movia a press release, in which they told of the change.
concretely the change, that it will no longer be possible to see the bus routes and timetables at the stops. Instead, you have to have his phone up pocket and check it digitally.
data from Statistics Denmark shows that 210,000 as older people are not digital and so can’t beat the bus timetables up on the web. A study last year, made of Passagerpulsen under the Consumer Think, also showed that older passengers prefer to get information about departure times and delays on site.
the Movia informs that ’the smaller group of passengers who are not comfortable with the digital’ can call Movia and order a timetable by mail or they can print them out from the net (in parenthesis, the noticed may be said to be digital, red.) just as they can send an sms (again – digital, red.) and get the relevant slot.
the Initiative culminated in the 1200 critical comments, who on Tuesday was handed down in a 300 pages long book to Movia communication director, Camilla Struckmann, who called it the ‘valuable input’.
the Extra Leaf has on several occasions tried to get a comment from Movia chairman of the board and the mayor of Hillerød Municipality, Kirsten Jensen, who recently gave the following reply to mail:
‘When we decide such major changes in the public transport system, we follow the course up on the reactions at upcoming board meetings. We will also do in this case. Until then I have or Movia no more comments to the decision,’ she wrote.
the Meeting, which the chairman refers to, takes place in the Movia headquarters in Valby Wednesday, and Ekstra Bladet are, therefore, met to ask the board members about the liberal citizens ‘ criticism has caused them to change their controversial decision.