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Better quality vehicles are key to higher rural bus use

Jim Davies, Public Transport Manager, Herefordshire Council, Hereford HR4
09 April 2006
 

Garrett Emmerson (ibid) repeats the old chestnut of the "increasingly empty" conventional rural bus being in terminal decline and suggests that taxi operators can best "fill the gap".

Here in Herefordshire our experience has been somewhat different. Few English counties are as rural as Herefordshire, yet here rural bus services, in an entirely conventional form, are enjoying something of a revival. Since 1998 Rural Bus Subsidy Grant (RBSG) has allowed the council to expand...

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