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• Government u-turn on bus lane restrictions

  25-03-2024 18:16 via passengertransport.co.uk
  The National Bus Strategy says bus lanes ‘should be full time’ but new guidance from DfT says they should ‘only operate when it makes sense’
   The National Bus Strategy for England declared ‘bus lanes should be full-time’
   In the week that markedthe third anniversary of the publication of Bus Back Better, its national bus strategy for England, the government has ditched support for full-time bus lanes.
  Launched in March 2021, the national bus strategy
  
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• SPT says franchising is the only game in town

  25-03-2024 18:13 via passengertransport.co.uk
  A new report by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport has concluded that bus franchising is the only option to stem long-term network decline
   
   BY Andrew Garnett
  Strathclyde could become the first region in Scotland to franchise its bus network after Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) members approved plans for a consultation about the future of buses. It could shake up a bus network that takes in a broad swathe of the west of Scotland and includes Argyll and Bute, Glasgo
  
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• Poetry in motion – the Paris Metro

  25-03-2024 16:14 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  Andrew Martin’s new book on the Paris Metro led me to reflect on the fascinating confluences and divergences with London
   
   I used to take the view that Paris was an ugly city (quasi motorways alongside the Seine, the dreary Haussmann boulevards, the Eiffel Tower) but with a lot of beautiful details. As well as a city that, beyond the ‘grands projets’, didn’t have so much to offer on progressive thinking on transport. But the motorways by the Seine are v
  
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• Why Andy Mellors is my low key hero

  25-03-2024 16:12 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  I am not saying that problems don’t exist, but my experiences of Avanti West Coast have been good – and it’s going to get better
  Andy Mellors
   Recently, I’ve heard a lot of folk suggest that the railway is in the worst shape ever. Even those who haven’t been on a train for years. I sit in meetings and see low morale and schisms between organisations and, of course, we’d all love clarity around the future government strategy. But, as a customer tha
  
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• At least 14m Easter car journeys could take twice as long as usual, RAC says

  25-03-2024 06:00
  
  Bank holiday weekend and start of school holidays take place at same time, with high traffic volumes expectedDrivers are being warned to expect long delays over Easter as millions of getaway trips lead to soaring traffic volumes and congested motorways.The RAC said that more than 14m journeys on some popular routes could take twice as long as normal, as the first bank holiday weekend of the spring coincides with the start of a two-week holiday for many schools. Continue reading...
  
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