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Wednesday, 27 April 2022

Financial Times

• Can Boris Johnson level up by improving bus services? The prime minister is overhauling Thatcher's deregulated system but local transport bodies say more money is needed

The Guardian

• Bus firm blames WFH for axing century-old service to BirminghamDismayed commuters who rely on service linking Bromsgrove and Birmingham say move is premature A 108-year-old bus service linking Bromsgrove and Birmingham is to be axed because so many people are now working from home, a transport boss has said.

Times Online

• National Express on road to recovery [subscription]Revenues at the transport group National Express returned to pre-pandemic levels in the first three months of the year on the back of its seventh successive quarter of improvement.

Liverpool Echo

• OPINIONLiverpool City Region's public transport revolution must speed upOn February 24, Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram laid out radical plans to bring the region's buses back under public control for the first time since the 1980s. This was the kind of policy so many had hoped to see when the devolved city region first elected a Metro Mayor in 2017.

The Press and Journal (Aberdeen)

• Transport is ‘essential’ to bolster night time economy in AberdeenAberdeen’s night time economy manager has called for transport links to be improved to aid recruitment problems. Ewan Mclean, Scotland’s only night time economy manager, said today that getting people home after a night out, or working at night was essential to help keep the city moving.

Wolverhampton Express and Star

• National Express revenue back to 2019 levelNational Express Group, which operates bus services in the West Midlands, saw revenue return to 2019 levels in the first three months of this year.

Other Regional Press

• Electric bus maker to create 130 jobs at new Warwick hubSwitch Mobility is opening a new training centre in Heathcote Way as part of a huge investment programme

Other News Sources

• Stagecoach and partners begin testing UK’s first full-sized autonomous busBacked by the UK’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, the autonomous bus has begun live testing on Scotland’s roads, in preparation for the launch of the CAVForth pilot service in late Summer 2022.