A double celebration for me – 10 years of BRTuk and 20 years of operating BRT

The author, who is stepping down after a decade as Chair of BRTuk at this year’s Annual Conference in Glasgow, reflects on the successes (and failures!) over that time

Foundations

The inspiration for the BRTuk organisation came from Colin Eastman of Coventry City Council in the earliest years of this Millennium; he drew together those already active and interested in improving the quality and attractiveness of bus travel to its passengers and potential new passengers, through increasing the quality, speed, and performance of trunk urban bus services. How had this come about?

At that time, there were but a tiny handful of urban bus corridors where such a...

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