Cast adrift – does the minister understand the problems?
Our coverage of the Transport Select Committee evidence session raises some serious questions about the intention or the competence of government to...
Ministers hear coach plight evidence
At the coach evidence session for the Transport Select Committee, chaired by Huw Merriman, MPs were told that as many as 40% of coach operators could...
Government disagrees with bus pass review
UK Government has disagreed with a recommendation from the Transport Select Committee to review how concessionary bus passes are financed. In its...
Bus strategy needed, urges Committee
A bus strategy to pull the sector out of decline has been called for by the Government’s Transport Committee. The downturn for buses is being...
An open letter to Lilian Greenwood MP
Dear Mrs Greenwood, I was a keen observer of the Transport Select Committee debate on Community Transport, focused on the use of Section 19 and 22...
Section 19: Transport Select Committee report recommends change
Main conclusions: Re-examination of local authority grant aid for CT sector DfT to publish details of S19 permits issued, and those used for public...
Section 19: the waters get murkier
It’s a mess, and the panic whipped up by the DfT’s new guidance for Section 19 and Section 22 Community Bus Permits shows little sign of abating...
S19: Agencies face searching questions
Managing Director of Surface Transport for London, Leon Daniels, has told the Transport Select Committee that loss of community transport services...