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Long-term bus funding: Strings attached if it arrives

What will 2023 hold for the bus industry? The primary hope must…

‘Bus modal shift challenges laid bare in WPI report’

The Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) recently commissioned WPI Economics to analyse…

Spending cuts: A worrying time for the bus industry

Liz Truss’s failed administration will surely go down in history as one…

‘Bus prominence threatened by Westminster crises’

Please note that the information in this column may be affected by…

What could a Truss government mean for bus policy?

When the next issue of routeone is published, we will have a…

What does current Tory drama mean for the bus industry?

Editor's note: This column was written before Grant Shapps' decision to withdrawn…

Bus funding in England: Approach is simply not fair

The Transport Committee has started to take oral evidence on its inquiry…

Has DfT accepted that National Bus Strategy is a pipedream?

Having spent months preparing Bus Service Improvement Plans (BSIPs), surely one of…

BSIP funding allocation ‘displays a lack of political nous’

Reading the press release that accompanied the Department for Transport (DfT) announcement…

‘Where we go from here is anybody’s guess’

£150m over six months, with nothing more to come, feels more like…