What lies in store for the coach industry during 2025?
Happy New Year. I hope that you will all have a profitable and successful 2025 in whatever you do. I…
How subcontracting can help SME bus operator franchising worries
Use of subcontracting in bus franchising could be one relatively easy means of protecting the interests of incumbent small- and…
Bus reregulation: Learning the lessons from London
A couple of columns back, I wrote about what it’s like to operate buses in London, adding that I’d share…
Economy woes threaten government ambitions for bus services
So the Bus Services (No 2) Bill, implementing the government’s bus reforms, principally around the franchising regime, has started its…
Better buses pledge must be backed by cold, hard cash
Who is the most important politician for our industry this year? I’ll give you a clue — it’s not the…
Five-year bus funding call underlined by CPT via inquiry submission
The need for a five-year funding settlement approach for bus services has once more been highlighted by the Confederation of…
Only with fundamental change can bus franchising be a panacea
The bus franchising juggernaut continues its march. Completion of that process in Greater Manchester has – on the face of…
Stagecoach East refutes CPCA ‘withdrawal of winning bids’ claim
A row has broken out between Stagecoach East and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA) over a rerun of…
IPPR research: Bus cuts led to £2.6bn economy reduction
Cuts to bus services were responsible for an estimated £2.6 billion reduction in England's economy between in 2011 and 2023,…
Greater Manchester bus franchising completed with third tranche
Reregulation of bus services in Greater Manchester completed on 5 January with the rollout of the third tranche of franchising.…
