buses and the capital
April 27th, 2004
The BBC claims buses are back in favour, which I don’t quite agree with. They do mention in passing that the increase in bus patronage probably had something to do with the incredible investment in London buses (as a consequence of congestion charging), and hence the recent ‘London bus love’ trend (I made up the name, the trend exists though!).
I don’t think this is reflected across the UK in general though. Certainly not in Bristol, where bus fares have increased ridiculously, as much as 40% in some cases, at just 1 fare-change interval.
Buses outside London are basically unregulated and until the day this changes, no significant changes are likely to come about where bus operators abuse their monopolistic or dominant market positions.
2 Responses to “buses and the capital”
1Sarah
April 27th, 2004 @ 11:06
mmmm on the Today programme on R4 they made more of the fact that this was really only in london and it fact elswhere bus use is dwindling.
2tom
April 27th, 2004 @ 13:15
i think even bus patronage in brighton has decreased in the last couple of years, brighton & hove bus company seem to have withheld the figures which to me indicates a fall!
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