Concerns over bus ‘funding gulf’ in Wales
The Welsh rail industry has received £167m in emergency support, ahead of the extra £45m the bus industry has received. Rhodri Clark reports Buses account for approximately four times more passenger journeys in Wales than trains The Welsh Government has decided to give 3.7 times more Covid-19 emergency funding to rail services than...
Online ceremony for scheduler finalists
We’re pleased to announce the first winner of the Joe Wood Scheduler of the Year award will be revealed on November 19 and we want you to join us Schedulers play a vital role in the UK bus industry, but they rarely get the recognition they deserve, so earlier this year, Passenger Transport...
Listen to Episode 3 of our ‘After Press’ podcast!
Listen to Episode 3 of ‘After Press’, the Passenger Transport podcast! Having just completed Issue 232 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 UITP’s assertion that “public transport is Covid-safe”, the malign influence...
‘Public transport is Covid-safe’ – UITP
UITP says growing number of international studies are finding that transmission risk is ‘very low’ Reacting and evolving: More than 200 UV light sanitising devices are being installed on 110 escalators on the London Underground network. A successful trial found that they improve sanitisation levels on escalator handrails by at least 50% “There...
Do we really want to take over TfL?
Our Whitehall insider imagines what’s going on inside the minds of the mandarins at Great Minster House, home of the DfT Surely we aren’t really going to take over control of Transport for London? Sure, TfL is technically insolvent and had we not given that second tranche of money a couple for weeks...
‘There’s still much to be done’ on racial equality
To support Black History Month, Reading Buses is profiling a different BAME employee each week. Meet employee director Mark Adams Employee director Mark Adams approached the company with an idea to celebrate Black History Month in 2015 It was in 2015 that Reading Buses employee director Mark Adams approached the company with an...
This is not the new normal we hoped for
As we brace ourselves for a difficult period, we need to get a grip on face masks, bus-friendly active travel and collaborative working TfL enforcement officers September brought an abrupt end to the dreams of the summer of a linear recovery from Covid-19, where empty office blocks would spring back into strip-lit...
Home working will change our world
Changes in how, where and when many of us work will challenge the assumptions upon which mobility for society is designed Will Tube patronage ever fully recover? As the world grapples with lockdowns, economic disruption and public health challenges there is a longing desire to return to a ‘normal’. But what does...
Listen to Episode 2 of our ‘After Press’ podcast!
Listen to Episode 2 of ‘After Press’, the new podcast from Passenger Transport! Having just completed Issue 231 of Passenger Transport Robert Jack and Andrew Garnett get together for a post-press debrief. The pair chat about some of the stories in the latest issue, including the impact of new lockdown restrictions on public...
Second wave threatens bus and rail recovery
As further restrictions are imposed across different parts of the UK, the steady upward trend in public transport use looks set to flatten or decline Stagecoach revealed that commercial revenues from its bus operations outside London had returned to 50-60% pre-Covid levels Public transport operators are already seeing the steady recovery of passenger...
We must rise up and fight for our lives!
Public transport faces a huge struggle to get back on its feet again. We know the future should be ours, but we will have to seize it The car driver thinks ‘I won’t be long’, writes Ralph Roberts – meanwhile dozens of bus users are delayed If nothing else, we should have...
Treasury must look beyond bottom line