Public Transport news

• Labour – ‘No more tinkering on the edges’

  26-01-2024 12:36 via passengertransport.co.uk
  With a general election drawing closer, shadow transport minister Simon Lightwood addressed bus and coach operators in London last week
   Simon Lightwood at last week’s CPT Conference
   An incoming Labour government would use simplified and extended franchising powers to grow public transport, and provide the sector with greater certainty. That was the message from shadow local transport minister Simon Lightwood at last week’s CPT Conference in London.
  Lightwood told delegate
  
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• Bus Partnership Fund pause disappoints CPT

  26-01-2024 12:29 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Scottish Government pledged £500m – but has spent only £26.9m
   As recently as last October, Scotland’s minister for transport, Fiona Hyslop, told Passenger Transport that the Bus Partnership Fund was “a key area of investment”
   Formally launched in November 2020, Scotland’s Bus Partnership Fund was hailed as a “landmark long-term capital investment of over £500m for bus priority measures”. But with the Scottish Government havi
  
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