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MORE people in England travel to work by bus than by all other forms of public transport combined—about 12% of the working population. Bus passengers make 5 billion journeys a year, three times as many as train passengers. And yet English buses are spluttering.

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  • Regional governments try to win back control of their bus networksMORE people in England travel to work by bus than by all other forms of public transport combined—about 12% of the working population. Bus passengers make 5 billion journeys a year, three times as many as train passengers. And yet English buses are spluttering.

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