FUTURE OF RAIL 🚆 | Backing Scotland on and off the rails - Lumo’s recent Caledonian expansion is about more than just trains. It’s about how how rail can support local economies and culture
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COMMENT 🗣️ | Alex Warner offers his hopes and fears for the year ahead, and laments "I sense a comatose state in transport whereby people are coasting"
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COMMENT 🗣️ | Three policies stuck in the crawler lane. Jonathan Bray says coaches, parking and car pooling are policy levers that are overlooked by transport strategies. Why is that, and how could it change?
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NEWS 📰 | Norfolk bus use surges above pre-Covid levels. Council reports BSIP has helped to boost patronage by 14%
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NEWS 📰 | Transport for London to create publicly-owned bus company? New draft Business Plan for period until 2029/30 proposes a ‘reimagining London’s bus network’, including detailed plans for an in-house operator
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NEWS 📰 | Stagecoach and Go-Ahead Group have been selected as the first operators to run the first publicly controlled bus services in Liverpool City Region since the 1980s
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UITP SUMMIT 🌍 | Public transport’s ‘global family gathering’. Dubai will host the #UITPSummit on April 21-23. We spoke to UITP’s secretary general, Mohamed Mezghani, about the event and what visitors can look forward to
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COMMENT 🗣️ | Let’s get on and fix rail replacement, says Alex Warner. A new report by CMAC has shed light on an often overlooked but frequent aspect of the railway’s customer service proposition
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COMMENT 🗣️ | Putting customers front and centre. Norman Baker says those taking decisions should always put themselves in the shoes of the passenger and ask whether what they will think reasonable
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NEWS 📰 | 100 more bus routes in Wales and £2 fare cap? Labour has pledged an enhanced bus offer for Wales if it wins this May’s Senedd election, but will this be matched funding? Rhodri Clark reports
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NEWS 📰 | NPR rail improvements ‘will actually happen’. More than a decade after the Northern Powerhouse Rail project was first proposed, the government has unveiled a three-phase plan for its delivery
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