Listen to Episode 9 of ‘After Press’, the Passenger Transport podcast! Having just completed Issue 238 of Passenger Transport Robert Jack and Andrew Garnett get together for a post-press debrief. The pair discuss the historic decision by Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, to introduce bus franchising. They also ask whether the...
Listen to Episode 8 of ‘After Press’, the Passenger Transport podcast! Having just completed Issue 237 of Passenger Transport Robert Jack and Andrew Garnett get together for a post-press debrief. The pair discuss the government’s National Bus Strategy… Is this the end of deregulation? Will future funding match the huge ambition? And why...
Bus Strategy marks biggest bus reform since the 1980s to achieve ‘substantial and untapped potential’ Boris Johnson visited National Express’s depot in Coventry on March 15, the day that the National Bus Strategy was published Bus operators in England will no longer design and provide local bus services in isolation, in a major...
Andy Byford reveals TfL modelling suggests a likely scenario of patronage rebounding in the medium term to 80% of historical pre-Covid norms London’s transport commissioner has warned that patronage recovery on the capital’s transport networks may take far longer than many within the industry expect. Speaking at a virtual event hosted by the...
The National Bus Strategy sets out an attractive vision for the future of buses, but questions remain over how it will be achieved For years we have been arguing that passengers in our areas don’t want on-street competition and private companies determining this key public service that they rely on. Instead they...
Our Whitehall insider imagines what’s going on inside the minds of the mandarins at Great Minster House, home of the DfT Finally, we’ve published the National Bus Strategy. As ever when new “strategies” get published governments love to describe them as revolutionary or ambitious. The National Bus Strategy is no exception, with...
Listen to Episode 7 of ‘After Press’, the Passenger Transport podcast! Having just completed Issue 236 of Passenger Transport Robert Jack and Andrew Garnett get together for a post-press debrief. The pair chat about some of the content in the latest issue, including insights from Passenger Transport’s survey of passenger transport professionals, Laura...
Our poll of passenger transport professionals serves as a large focus group, revealing how the sector feels about the Covid experience and the future Public transport is not the only sector of the economy to have been battered by Covid. In fact, some might argue that it has been relatively sheltered; permitted to...
Urban Transport Group chair says now is a good time for the sector to remind itself, and those who work within it, of the essential role they play Laura Shoaf: networks must be “fully functioning and supported” The managing director of Transport for West Midlands has warned that any post-Covid cuts to public...
It’s hard to believe that this great magazine has been around for 10 years. It’s been part of my development, and perhaps yours too How time flies! 10 years ago, I was privileged to be selected by the founders of this great mag, Robert Jack and Andrew Garnett, to spend their very first...
Transport secretary sets out plans to achieve modal shift Scotland’s transport secretary, Michael Matheson The Scottish Government’s commitment to cut car use by a fifth over the next decade was identified as being among a set of “bold policy proposals” to decarbonise transport by Scotland’s transport secretary, Michael Matheson. The target was announced...
Stats show 74.7% of trains arrived on time in late 2020 ‘On time’ performance was the third highest quarterly percentage since the time series began in 2014-15 The latest statistics from the Office of Rail and Road have found that between October to December 2020, there were 1.7 million trains planned (11% fewer...
Plenty of ambition, but ambiguity also