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Thursday, 02 July 2020

Bristol Live

• Changes planned for Bristol Airport bus serviceAdditional bus services are set to run from Sunday

East Anglian Daily Times

• Parents voice anger as essential school bus service scrappedA bus service popular among students who use it to travel between Hadleigh, Capel St Mary, East Begholt and Colchester is being scrapped come September, leaving some children with no way to get to school.

Other Regional Press

• York's new rush hour as First Bus add more services to timetableCoronavirus has completely changed the behaviours of passengers in York and there is a new 'rush hour' that is different to normal
• Thousands of extra seats on Coventry bus servicesNew social distancing measures will be in place

Other News Sources

• FlixBus confirms UK network launchFirm aims to be UK market leader by 2025 FlixBus will launch UK services on four routes from tomorrow   Growing international coach operator FlixBus has confirmed rumours surrounding plans to launch an assault on the UK market with the announcement it will commence services tomorrow on several routes from London. Last year, the German company registered a new UK-based subsidiary with a registered office based at a Bristol law firm (see issue PT217). The new company’s sole director was named as Max Zeumer, FlixBus’s vice president of international business. The company also applied for a U...
• £46.7m for Scottish bus servicesFunding boost has been welcomed by bus operators Michael Matheson   The Scottish Government has approved additional expenditure of £46.7m to support bus operators as the country comes out of lockdown. Bus travel typically accounts for just under three quarters of all public transport journeys but this has fallen substantially as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The Scottish Government had continued to make payments totalling £34.3m to 155 bus operators, covering concessionary fares reimbursement and Bus Service Operator Grant at pre-lockdown levels. However, Scottish transport secret...
• ‘Buses are central to delivering New Deal’CPT boss says National Infrastructure Strategy is an opportunity to ensure that buses are given priority   Boris Johnson speaking in Dudley this week   Boris Johnson set out the first steps in the strategy to “rebuild Britain and fuel economic recovery across the UK” in a speech in Dudley on June 30. Before the coronavirus crisis, buses were at the heart of the prime minister’s domestic policy agenda. In a speech Manchester last August, he declared his “love” for buses and pledged to to “begin as a matter of urgency the transformation of local bus ...