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• Treadmill accelerates for bus franchising

  25-07-2025 13:55 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Bidding teams for bus franchises in Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region and West Yorkshire have a busy schedule as key dates approach
   Procurement of two small Bee Network franchise lots kicks off later this year
   Companies chasing contracts to operate bus franchises in some of England’s biggest cities have a busy summer ahead of them.
  Following the implementation of bus franchising across Greater Manchester at the start of this year, Transport for Greater Manchester is now
  
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• No mention of Glider in draft NI strategy

  25-07-2025 13:51 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Belfast’s ground-breaking Bus Rapid Transit scheme is not mentioned in Northern Ireland’s draft Transport Strategy. Rhodri Clark reports
   A Glider vehicle in service
   Northern Ireland’s draft Transport Strategy to 2035 does not mention Glider or Belfast Rapid Transit, or include a photo of one of the iconic Glider buses. The Department for Infrastructure said this was because the strategy is a high level document.
  The DfI is undertaking a public consultation on the tr
  
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• Seizing momentum to boost bus services

  25-07-2025 13:47 via passengertransport.co.uk
  With the Buses Bill advancing and the multi-year funding deal, there is a real opportunity to fully unlock the potential of bus
   An Arriva bus in Leicester
   BY Alistair Hands, Arriva UK Bus
  The latest National Transport Survey from the Department for Transport has shown that the number of people travelling by bus has continued to steadily grow year-on-year, even exceeding pre-pandemic levels in some areas.And the government’s commitment to the importance of bus has been demonstra
  
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• Powering up revenue protection

  25-07-2025 13:40 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  Fraudulent travel poses a huge and complex challenge to the rails sector. If we unite and show real commitment, we can tackle it
   Revenue protection should be treated as a specialism
   Last week, in my role as chair of the West Midlands Grand Rail Collaboration, I co-hosted, with my colleague Lucy Wootton, an away day in Birmingham for frontline employees and managers from across the region’s railway to discuss the challenge of revenue protection. 
  As regular readers
  
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• Getting it right for rural areas

  25-07-2025 13:33 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  Rural bus services face the twin challenges of lower patronage and longer mileage, but it’s not doom and gloom everywhere
   Bus patronage has increased in Cornwall (Image: Shutterstock)
   As I write this, I’m travelling to Hatfield for the first Quality Rural Bus Conference. By the time you read this, the event will have passed, and the industry will have made a meaningful effort to give rural services the spotlight they so sorely need – and deserve.
  The plight
  
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