A TRAVEL token scheme run by East Dorset District Council is being recommended for closure.
Members of the authority’s cabinet are being asked to close the scheme to new applicants but to continue to provide payments to people already signed-up
More than 50 people across the district who are unable to use public transport receive the equivalent of £40 a year in tokens which they can use to cover the cost of taxi journeys.
However, the number of people using the scheme has fallen from 143 in 2016 and a recommendation has been made by council officers that no new applicants are accepted.
Similar schemes run by other authorities in Dorset have been closed or scaled-back in recent years with Poole council’s completely scrapped and Bournemouth council only providing vouchers to people who were already receiving the payments.
The decision on whether to continue running east Dorset’s travel token programme will be made at the council’s cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
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