Welcome to Dita

We are glad you have found us! We are here to help make transport more integrated, more accessible and more popular. Whether it’s buses, community transport, car share schemes, cycling facilities, access to walking routes or community car clubs, DITA is here to help.

We act as a central information and advice point to people visiting or living in the Dales and Nidderdale AONB to enable them to be aware of what their transport options are. We aim to operate around eight “hubs”—central transport information and advice points that are run by local volunteers in towns and villages in the DITA area. Some of these are already open in Grassington, Sedbergh, Pateley Bridge and Leyburn, with the rest due to open by March 2013.

Find out more about what we do by going to About Us or clicking on the DITA Hubs & Projects page.

 

 

How to use this site

This site is here to enable you to make transport choices for getting round the Dales and Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

On every page:
• Route Planner allows you to see what buses or trains are available to help you make your selected journey. Just type in the journey you want to make and click on Get Your Route to see your options.

• DITA Updates is a window on the current news on bus service and train services—and other transport–in the Dales. In addition, a Twitter feed allows people around the Dales to feed in live travel information. To follow us on Twitter click here 

• Travel Diary is a way that transport users in the DITA area can help us continue to carry out research into rural travel patterns, that can help us to design new services or integrate existing services. If you think you can fill in a travel diary for a week, then click on Travel Diary.

• Travel Notice Board is a community space where you can post availability of spare car seats, or post transport needs. For example you are going to the cinema in Harrogate from Pateley Bridge one Wednesday evening and have two car seats spare. Why not post this on the DITA Notice Board, to see if others might be interested in traveling with you? You need to get to the hospital for an appointment, but there is no transport available. Why not post the date, hospital and time and see if someone who lives nearby is traveling to the same town and can easily take you?

• Online Survey takes you to a screen where you can answer survey questions about transport in the Dales and beyond, as a way of helping us carry out our research. The survey changes on a regular basis, so please keep coming back.

Dita Latest…

One Way £1 fare for young people now available

Click here to download flyers and posters to use in your school, college, library, or wherever you feel they would attract interest!
 


DITA Position Statement

We are now half way through the funding period for the funds we have received from the Department for Transport and wanted to give everyone with an interest in the Connecting the Dales LSTF project an overview of our work so far and our strategy for the final two years of the project. 

Click here to find out more

 

Job Opportunity

We are currently looking for maternity cover for our Project Leader. The Project Leader plays a key role in developing and promoting transport services which meet the travel needs of people in the Dales. The DITA Project Board is looking for an enthusiastic, resourceful and organised person with a track record of developing public services in close consultation with their users.  Applications to be in by 28 April.

Click here for more information

 

Why Dita?

DITA was formed by a group of people living in or near the Yorkshire Dales who were concerned that rural transport was in decline. How could we begin to reverse that decline? We decided to apply for Government funding to enable us to carry out research and come up with community-based solutions. 

In rural areas, people have much higher transport costs because of longer than average car journeys (which also means we have a much higher carbon footprint) and the higher cost of fuel in rural areas. 

Our funding runs out in 2015, and by then we hope to have done research, trialed services; and achieved greater integration of services that currently exist to enable us to reverse the decline.

We want to do more, but need your help!  You can volunteer to help at hubs or in other ways, or donate money to help our work. Go to Can You Help on the menu bar to find out more.