Coronavirus: Shropshire Council's transport fleet being used to deliver essential items to the vulnerable
Buses, taxis and community cars are being used to deliver essential items to vulnerable people throughout Shropshire.
Shropshire Council's passenger transport team is using its fleet of vehicles to deliver food parcels, hot meals, medicines and other goods to people across the county.
With people staying at home due to the lockdown or unable to leave the house due to them self-isolating or other health reasons, the team is working to ensure that people receive urgent supplies.
Steve Davenport, the authority's cabinet member for highways and transport, said: “We’re working hard to make sure that people get food, medicines and other important items and I want to thank all involved in providing this important service.
“Community car drivers are being used to deliver prescriptions, taxis are being organised to deliver food parcels around the Shrewsbury area, and some of the commercial bus operators who would normally have been providing school transport are delivering shopping to assist some of our community transport groups within Shropshire who have been inundated with requests for help.
“And we’re working with Shire Catering to develop a network to deliver hot meals to people housed in temporary accommodation around the county, utilising our own internal fleet for the larger deliveries and our commercial transport operators for smaller countywide distribution.”
