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Tough questions need asking about bus expenditure

Elsa Woodward, High Wycombe, Bucks
09 July 2010
 

The interview with the minister Norman Baker about the budget cuts and transport refers to large sums used to support bus services. In the year before free bus travel for pensioners was introduced, in October 2008, bus subsidies amounted to £2.36bn, even though bus passenger miles had been declining for a decade or more. At the same time, rail patronage had been booming and light rail regularly achieving greater energy efficiency and bigger modal shifts from the car of 20% or more.

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