There’s a fantastic response to this petition (click to sign). Thanks to a very active Facebook campaign, support is snowballing – with hundreds of signatures added today!
Brilliant news – when you realise that – under Suffolk County Council’s constitution, once a petition has reached 3,675 signatures, the petitioner can take it before full council for the decision to be looked at again. The petitioner (Patrick Gillard) tells me he is only too keen to do this. We’re now over a quarter of the way there!
Please SIGN. Get your friends to SIGN. Get your Family to SIGN. And then ask THEM to ask every Suffolk resident they know to SIGN. Show Suffolk County Council that this is one cut too many.
There are 51,000 Explore card users in Suffolk and 50,000 are yet to sign. Make sure they know about this – and when they do know, make sure they sign!
BRING BACK OUR EXPLORE CARDS.
And so say all of us!
the council shouldn’t get rid of explore cards because then no one would go to college because they wouldn’t be able to afford it
It will certainly make things much harder! I hope you signed the petition!
We need to get the Explore cards back! my son travelled from Sudbury to Bury on Friday and forgot his explore card had expired, the cost was £3.70 he then went onto Newmarket the bus fare was £4.00, he stayed overnight then come back on Saturday and paid the same again, so his journey to Newmarket via Bury was over £15.00 he is 15 he will not be visiting his friend again at that cost, it is really not good enough that he now has to pay the full adult price.
We all need to speak out and get these cards back in use!!!
Could you make sure that you and everyone you know have signed the petition? We have to get to 3675 signatures to have the situation re-examined
I would like to sign the petition for continuation of Explorer card.
Please let me know how to do it.
Regards
Rajdeep
Thank you for your interest, Rajdeep. The petition is now closed, but the fight continues. If you live in Suffolk you should write to your County councillor, explaining why you want the card to continue!