Operators celebrate as bus use catches on outside London

29 November 2006

Bus operators have seized on new statistics showing that bus journeys increased in three regions outside London in 2005/06 as evidence that the current system can be made to work.
Bus passenger journeys increased in Yorkshire & Humber, the East Midlands, and the Southeast in 2005/06, according to new regional transport statistics published by the Department for Transport.
Patronage also increased in the South Yorkshire passenger transport executive area, and was stable in West Yorkshire.
The new statistics came in the wake of the Queen’s Speech, which suggested that operators had lost the argument over whether new regulations were needed, as the Government pledged ‘to allow local authorities to improve standards’.
A Confederation of Passenger Transport spokesman commented: ‘These figures show that, where there are good relationships between operators and transport authorities, we can get increased patronage under the present system.’ More people were using buses across entire regions, not merely in a couple of cities such as Oxford and Brighton & Hove, he said.

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