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Of course buses are already one of the greenest ways to travel, responsible for only three per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions from transport (cars are responsible for 55…
As is the case for most workers on a low income, people who are seeking a job having been made unemployed during the pandemic will usually be applying for jobs…
Despite buses being our most popular form of public transport, with over 4 billion journeys last year, there has never been an overarching national strategy. Our call for one was…
We have of course all been advised to stay at home unless we have to travel, which is fine, except that the Government messaging has managed to convey the idea…
When we asked our social media followers what we should include in our response to the Government’s consultation on the future of rural transport, many expressed similar concerns. “Bus services…
In a series of blogs, we’ll be making the case for more and better public transport, walking and cycling for a successful, green recovery. In the first, we look at…
Part of the problem has been chronic underfunding – almost £400 million has been cut from local bus funding in the last decade alone – resulting in fewer and fewer…
Many of the people who contacted us from these places spoke of the decline in public transport starting with the loss of their train station as a result of Beeching’s…
As declining funding, service cuts and rising fares have unfolded in recent years, Campaign for Better Transport has led calls for a National Bus Strategy to focus attention on the…
The new strategy will follow in the still-warm tyre tracks of 2017’s Bus Services Act, which gave a small number of local authorities the ability to wrest timetabling and ticketing…
This is fantastic news for communities up and down the country who have borne the brunt of degrading and withdrawn services in recent years. But what will the strategy look like? …
Uniquely for a major transport mode, the UK has had no national strategy for buses for several decades. Our report out today, The future of the bus, argues that such…
Unit 407
164/180 Union Street,
Waterloo,
London,
SE1 0LH