The spotlight was once again placed on the lack of say passenger transport executives have on bus performance this week.

 Deregulation had led to a 40% decrease in passenger numbers in large conurbations outside London, backbenchers heard. ‘We look enviously at the powers of Transport for London,’ said ~Mike Parker~ director-general of Nexus, the Tyne and Wear PTE. The PTEs also called for the same powers traffic commissioners have. ‘In Tyne and Wear, 4% of bus services don’t operate because either there isn’t a bus, or there isn’t a driver.’ But the Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers warned that, while the capital had been a ‘major success story’, it had required subsidies of 31p per passenger kilometre compared with 11p in PTE areas.

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