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The party has proposed a number of job-creating schemes ahead of May’s Scottish Parliament election.
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The Tories also propose a smart travel card that would work on public transport across Scotland, akin to an Oyster Card in London
SNP promises free bikes, and e-buses
Free bikes will be given to Scottish schoolchildren of low income households if the SNP is returned to Government next month.
Covid and net zero drive new bus financing models
The challenges of Covid-19 and the Government’s net zero carbon dioxide target are prompting new thinking about how bus investment is financed. Transport Scotland has just published a paper looking at potential solutions
Saturday, 17 April 2021
Hull Daily Mail
- East Riding bus services praying for passengers to return as Hull Trains relaunch limited servicesTransport Director Paul Abbott said getting passengers back on buses would be an 'uphill battle'
Other Regional Press
- Call for Shrewsbury bus station to be rebuilt and all residential streets to be 20mphTransport campaigners are calling for a bus station to be rebuilt in a town centre and for all residential streets to be made 20mph.
Transportxtra
- Don’t set early date for ending diesel bus salesBus operators in England this week urged the Government not to set an overambitious deadline for ending the sale of new diesel buses.
- Bus margins ‘were falling before Covid’Bus operators were seeing profitability fall before Covid-19 struck, according to an analysis of operator accounts for 2018/19.
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