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MPs call for national bus strategy and wider franchising powers
Transport committee says ‘fairer deal for bus user’ needed to reverse passenger decline. Ministers must set out a national strategy for buses and extend franchising powers to all local authorities to halt an alarming decline in usage, MPs have said.
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
The Guardian
- MPs call for national bus strategy and wider franchising powersTransport committee says ‘fairer deal for bus user’ needed to reverse passenger decline. Ministers must set out a national strategy for buses and extend franchising powers to all local authorities to halt an alarming decline in usage, MPs have said.
The Independent
- Bus services outside London need reform, MPs warn amid passenger declineFunding of bus services in England is uncertain and needs reform, MPs have warned in a move that has been welcomed by campaigners hoping for services to be re-regulated.
Transport Committee
- Government must set out bus strategy to halt decline in bus useA lack of co-ordinated Government policy and squeezed funding for local authorities is driving bus use into decline, says the Transport Committee.
Newcastle Evening Chronicle
- Let councils run bus services to halt passenger decline, say MPsPlea from influential Commons Committee comes after Nexus was forced to abandon plans to take over bus services
Other News Sources
- MPs call for coordinated bus strategy to address declineThe country’s most popular form of public transport is in serious decline due to fragmented government policy and reductions in council funding, a cross-party committee of MPs has said.
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