Concessionary travel scheme
Travel tokens and rail cards
1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009
Eligible people may apply for £60 of travel tokens at a charge of £5, and a rail card (if required) at a
cost of £2
instead of a bus permit. If you apply later in the year, you can buy £30 of tokens for
£2.50 after 1 October. The tokens are issued to help people of aged 60 or over and people with
disabilities make essential journeys. The scheme does not cover long journeys or excursions.
You are eligible for tokens and rail card if you are:
• resident within the Aylesbury Vale District Council area;
• aged 60 or over and live in a village or area listed overleaf.
or • you cannot use buses because of disability or frailty – either because you are unable to board
a bus or because you are unable to walk to or from a bus stop at either end of the journey.
or • you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act (see back page).
We will ask you for proof of your eligibility and address. In the case of disability, we need your
permission to contact your doctor. A passport photograph is required for your taxi token travel card.
Travel tokens – conditions of use
• The tokens are valid for taxis fares in Hackney carriages, private hire vehicles and Dial-a-
Ride only (as listed overleaf).
• The maximum cost of any one-way journey paid for, in full or in part, with tokens is £10.
• You can use tokens for journeys that start or finish in Aylesbury Vale District Council’s
area.
• Only the person to whom the tokens were issued may use them.
• You must show the travel card to the driver at the start of your journey.
Taxis All taxi operators in the Aylesbury Vale area are invited to join the scheme. Taxi firms that
currently accept tokens are listed below. If you call for a taxi, check first whether the operator
accepts travel tokens.
All taxis accepting tokens will display the “National transport tokens welcome” sign on their
windscreen. Fares are the same whether you pay by tokens, cash or a mix of both.
Information – Travel Tokens - 2008
Villages or areas eligible for travel tokens
Ashendon
Foscott
Mentmore
Aston Sandford
Halton village
Middle Claydon
Barton Hartshorn
Hillesden
Nash
Beachampton
Hoggeston
Pitchcott
Biddlesden
Hogshaw
Preston Bissett
Bishopstone
Horton
Radclive
Burcott
Ivinghoe Aston
Shalstone
Chetwode
Kingsey
Stowe
Creslow
Leckhampstead
Thornborough
Dagnall
Lenborough
Thornton
Dorton
Lillingstone Dayrell
Upper Winchendon
Dunton
Lillingstone Lovell
Waddon
East Claydon
Lower Winchendon
Weedon
Ford
Ludgershall
Wotton Underwood
Taxi operators taking part in the travel token scheme
Aston Clinton
Aston Clinton Private Hire
01296 631517
Aylesbury
ABC Taxis
01296 423232
Ace Cars
01296 433336
Acme Cars
01296 688776
Fosters 01296
488443
Falcon
01296 437649 or 580000
Humming Bird Cars
01296 426699
Scorpion Cars
01296 429292
Taff’s Cars
01296 395003
Bicester
Union Cars
01869 325325 or 249207
Bletchley
Ace (Choice) Cars
01908 367444
Buckingham
Buckingham Car Hire
01280 812038
Redcars of Buckingham
01280 812518
Trusted Cars
01280 848206
Linslade
Leighton Linslade & District
01525 853566
Community Transport
Association Ltd
Thame
Thame Taxis
01844 214433
Wing
Wing Cabs
01296 688739
Winslow
Winslow Cars (PRS Cars)
01296 713795
When you ring to book a taxi, always check that they accept travel tokens.
Information – Travel Tokens - 2008
Rail card
You can have a rail card, at a cost of £2, instead of a bus pass if you are unable to use bus services.
The rail card gives you a one-third discount on rail travel within a 20 mile radius of Aylesbury,
which includes: Bicester, Haddenham, Princes Risborough, High Wycombe, Beaconsfield, Seers
Green and Gerrards Cross, Stoke Mandeville, Wendover, Great Missenden and Amersham.
You are eligible for a rail card if you are aged 60 or over, or if you are a disabled person, and live in
the Aylesbury Vale District Council area. The rail card is valid for one year from the date of issue.
Only the person named on the rail card may use it. This is a partnership scheme with Chiltern
Railways.
Rail cards are only available from the cashiers in the Customer Service Centre at Aylesbury Vale
District Council, 66 High Street, Aylesbury, Bucks HP20 1SD. The opening hours are:
Monday to Wednesday
8.45am to 5.15pm
Thursday
9.45am to 5.15pm
Friday
8.45am to 4.45pm
Do you have any questions or comments? We’d like to know what you think of this service - please contact us:
Aylesbury Customer Service Centre, 66 High Street
01296 585661
Buckingham Centre (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday), Verney Close
01296 585858
Winslow Area Office (Monday & Wednesday), 28 High Street
01296 712131
Information in other formats
This information is available, free of charge, in large print, tape or
CD or DVD. Call 01296 585661 to request this service.
This leaflet is about the travel token and rail card scheme for people with disabilities and
those aged 60 and over who cannot use buses. For a translation into another language,
call 01296 585661.
Information – Travel Tokens - 2008
Definition of a disabled person
You are eligible for the concessionary travel scheme if you are in a disabled person as defined by
the Transport Act 2000:
General criteria - types of disability:
Those that are permanent or which have lasted at least 12 months – or which are likely to last at
least 12 months, and have a substantial effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day
activities.
The eligibility categories:
You are eligible if you:
• are blind or partially sighted – registered as blind or registered as partially sighted.
• are profoundly or severely deaf – registered with Social Services department.
• are without speech – medical evidence required.
• have a disability, or has suffered an injury, which has a substantial and long term adverse effect
on your ability to walk. You automatically qualify if you are in receipt of the higher rate
mobility component of Disability Living Allowance. For other applicants, medical evidence is
required that walking ability is permanently or substantially impaired.
• do not have arms or have long-term loss of the use of both arms. In the case of long-term loss of
use of both arms, medical evidence is required.
• have a learning disability that is a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which
includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning. Medical evidence is
required or evidence of any registration of people with learning disabilities.
• would, if you applied for a licence to drive a motor vehicle under Part III of the Road Traffic
Act 1998, have your application refused (other than on the grounds of persistent misuse of drugs
or alcohol). Where there is doubt that a person would be refused, medical evidence will be
sought.
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