Bus
Resources
Implementation of Competition Commission bus registration remedies
Multi operator ticketing comparison
National road and rail networks: draft national policy statement
Changing Highways Policy
This report to pteg by Atkins focuses on the most important recent and forthcoming changes to highways policy and the implications of these for Metropolitan areas, including in respect of air quality, carbon emissions, technology, the Strategic Road Network, road maintenance, road safety, planning, freight, management of road space and parking policy.
Local Authority Parking
Government measures to support uptake of ultra low emission vehicles from 2015-2020
Government proposals to ban CCTV enforcement of parking and implications for buses
Parliamentary Commission on Physical Activity
Triannual review of Traffic Commissioners
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Draft regulatory reform (Public Service Vehicles) Order 2005
Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (lifting part three exemptions for transport services)
Timescales for implementation of Quality Contracts
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Latest CC report casts shadow over quality partnerships as well as franchising, claims pteg
Ticketing recommendations welcomed…but CC’s overall package is ‘faith based’ not ‘evidence based’
pteg responds to Competition Commission buses report
David Brown, who leads for pteg on buses, said:
Re-launched buspartnership.com reflects growing use of Transport Act powers
An updated buspartnership.com website (www.buspartnership.com) has been launched today (31st August 2011).
Minister announces new safety guidance for bus and coach garages
Transport Minister, Norman Baker MP has given his support to new guidance for health and safety in a bus or coach station. The information has been jointly published by the Confederation of Passenger Transport UK (CPT) and Passenger Transport Executive Group (pteg).
pteg calls on Competition Commission to build on 2008 Transport Act
Full costs of competition failure are higher than CC estimates
pteg welcomes Competition Commission bus report
pteg welcomes Competition Commission bus report
pteg welcomes freebus BSOG decision
In response to Norman Baker’s answer to a parliamentary question on 10 March on BSOG and freebus:
Norman Baker:
Bus subsidy cuts would hit the poorest hardest
New report from pteg warns of the disproportionate effect of bus fare increases on low income families
Beeching-style threat to England's local bus networks
- Government review of Bus Service Operators Grant puts services at risk
- Low-income groups to be hit worst by 10% fares rise and routes cuts
- Thousands of bus driver and manufacturer jobs under threat