The fickle finger of revenue

Have local authorities grasped the financial risks that come with managing bus services?

Allow me a bit of a reminisce, to almost 30 years ago when we concluded the successful management buy-out of Brighton & Hove from the National Bus Company. It really was exciting; after working for someone else for many years suddenly the buck stopped with a team of five of us. But it was also a scary time with responsibilities to provide a livelihood for hundreds of employees and run a comprehensive high profile bus network attracting thousands of people to use buses to travel around every...

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