In order to promote sustainability in travel, public transport investment must focus in the coming years on flexible bus transportation in urban and rural areas. In many rural areas measures – including those relating to transport – are required to promote greater access to employment and services for those who live in rural areas. Many people in rural areas do not have access to public transport. This issue must be addressed. People with disabilities and the elderly cannot get out of their homes from one end of the week to the other. There is a bus service on one day each week in my parish. The service only operates on Saturday which is unsuitable because post offices, banks and other public services are closed. People are being held prisoners in their own homes due to the lack of a proper rural public transport service.