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Friday, 06 September 2019

City AM

• Shaun Bailey confirms he will increase Tube fares – but says a fare hike is already comingTory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has confirmed he would put up Tube fares after saying the current mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, would do the same.

Other Regional Press

• Transport chiefs labelled 'irresponsible' after call for park and ride chargesCouncil bosses have confirmed they could consider charging motorists. Transport chiefs have been labelled “wholly irresponsible” after stressing that charging drivers to use park and ride sites could generate hundreds of thousands of pounds to expand the provision across the Capital.

Coach and Bus Week

• Stagecoach West commences new Bristol bus routesTwo bus services previously operated by First West of England moved to Stagecoach West operation from September 1. Route and times remain the same on both the X5 service which connects Weston-super-Mare with Clevedon, Nailsea, Portishead and Bristol’s Cribbs Causeway shopping centre and the Severn Express service between Bristol Bus Station, Cribbs Causeway, Chepstow and Newport.
• Opening up: Mental health in the bus industryMadaline Dunn spoke to Meera Rambissoon, Senior Consultant at TAS Partnership, to discuss mental health awareness in the bus industry and find out what is being done to destigmatise mental illness
• TfL invests in outer London bus routesTravel options for residents of south east London will be improved from October as Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that, after a public consultation, a second new bus route will be introduced in the area.
• Reading Buses service changes commence operationMost of the changes are minor and involve the re-numbering of school buses to make them easier to understand for school and non-school customers alike, but some timetables will see other changes.
• North East alliance of bus operators relaunchesNEbus has been announced as the new form for the North East Bus Operators Association, with Go North East MD Martijn Gilbert leading it. James Day reports

Route One (Bus and Coach)

• TfL sets out ‘tough measures’ to reduce bus driver fatigue following studyBetter partnership working between TfL, bus operators and bus drivers will deliver an even safer bus network, report concludes
• Bus priority in Scotland to get more than £500m boostThe Scottish Government is to allocate over £500m to improving bus priority. It is part of “a step change in investment” to tackle the impact of congestion on services and patronage levels.
• Lothian reports one million taps and countingLothian says its customers have hit a milestone of one million taps for its new contactless and fare capped payment system in Edinburgh.
• Two join management team at Stagecoach EastStagecoach East has made two key appointments at its depot in Peterborough. Stu Wright joins the team as Operations Manager with responsibility for 176 Drivers and five Controllers whilst Peter Green is the new Engineering Manager with an engineering staff, including storekeeper, cleaners, depot shunters and apprentices of 30 and 89 buses.