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‘A funding fault line runs through the National Bus Strategy’

As we edge ever closer to the deadline for local transport authorities…

Shapps ‘a consummate presenter’, but NBS message is lacking

The Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, is a consummate presenter,…

‘Bus Service Improvement Plan timetable hurt by elections’

As 2021 unfolds, a key issue confronting the bus industry will increasingly…

‘How does coach strategy fit into a sector private to its core?’

The publication in March of a coach strategy – Backing Britain’s Coaches…

‘Bus industry must start to recognise changes in society’

I hope nobody of a nervous disposition watched Chancellor Rishi Sunak deliver…

Will policy changes come to benefit bus in the long term?

Jessica Matthew, Director of Strategy at the Department for Transport (DfT), is…

‘Difficult decisions lie ahead for bus service funding’

(Editor's note: This column was written before changes in regard to bus…

‘National Bus Strategy must deliver proposals of substance’

At a recent online event organised by Transport Focus, Baroness Vere, Parliamentary…

Does pandemic change the need for a National Bus Strategy?

A second national lockdown in England, based – it now seems –…

Will ‘bold’ plans for the bus industry see the light of day?

With mixed messages and possible ‘deadly’ decisions, our man in Westminster asks…