Snowy River Shire Council auspices the Snowy River Cooma Monaro (SRCM) Community Transport Service, which aims to provide to specific eligible groups within the community a safe, effective and efficient transport service aimed at maintaining peoples independence in the community.

The following information is avaible on this site.

Who is it for?
Links
Buses
Cars
Volunteers
Your Local Transport Guide

 

Who is it for?

Community Transport is available to residents within the Cooma Monaro and Snowy River Shires who:

~ are frail aged

~ have a disability

~ or who care for a person who is frail aged or who has a disability

~ people needing assistance to access mainstream health services, or who are geographically or socially isolated.

SRCM Community Transport does not exist to provide transport to the 'general public', but receives funding from the Government to assist persons within the particular target groups above. It is important to recognize that even if a person falls within the categories of eligibility, provision of service is not an entitlement, and also depends on availability of funding and other resources, and the relative need of their situation.

Contact Details:

Telephone: 02 6451 1054  or  02 6451 1055
Facsimile: 02 6456 3972
Email: communitytransport@snowyriver.nsw.gov.au

 

LINKS

Cooma Coaches

Snowliner Coaches

 

Transport provided:

BUSES

8 regular shopping and medical bus runs are provided:

Weekly

Cooma (Fridays shopping)

Berridale to Cooma & return (Thursdays)

Fortnightly

Nimmitabel to Cooma & return (Thursdays)

Bredbo to Cooma & return (Tuesdays)

Jindabyne to Cooma & return (Thursdays)

Adaminaby to Cooma & return (Fridays)

Monthly

Cooma to Canberra & return
(First Monday of each month except January)

 

All buses are booked services, collect people from their door if necessary, and give priority to people accessing medical appointments, but can also be accessed by ineligible persons if there are spare seats.

 

CARS

Individual transport is available to eligible persons, where medical appointments do not fall within bus times, and is provided by volunteer drivers in their own or service vehicles. On occasion taxi companies will be contracted.

Funding received from the Department of Ageing Disability and Home Care; and the Ministry of Transport.

Annual grant received from Cooma Monaro Shire Council

Reimbursement from the Department of Veterans Affairs and NSW Department of Health

VOLUNTEERING with Snowy River Cooma Monaro Community Transport

Snowy River Cooma Monaro Community Transport recognises the valuable contribution to the service made by volunteers and actively encourages their participation because it:

~ enables consumers of the service to retain mobility and independence

~ enables volunteers to contribute to their community

~ provides the opportunity for work experience and the development of new skills in volunteers

~ enhances the range of services available through the Transport Service

~ allows for wider community participation in the service.

 

VOLUNTEER ROLES

Volunteers will not be used to replace paid workers in the service however Snowy River Cooma Monaro Community Transport very gratefully accepts offers of service from volunteers in the following capacities:

1. Volunteer Drivers

   Volunteer drivers drive their own or a service vehicles to transport service customers from their homes to and from medical appointments, recreational, social or shopping destinations within the 2 Shires of Cooma Monaro and Snowy River Shire or outside this area to Canberra, and Bega.

2. Volunteer Bus Carers

   Snowy River Cooma Monaro Community Transport provides 8 regular scheduled medical and shopping bus services throughout the Cooma Monaro and Snowy River Shires and to Canberra.

3. Volunteer Administration Projects eg Gazettes

   People who are interested in volunteering with Snowy River Cooma Monaro Community Transport will receive orientation training and are reimbursed for out of pocket expenses.

Volunteer Application

 

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life

that no man can sincerely try to help another

without helping himself".

^{Ralph Waldo Emerson}