Local hero

Giles Fearnley is a bus and rail entrepreneur with one eye on the big picture another on the local scene

Few people better embody the ethos of a consummate passenger transport professional than Giles Fearnley. Confident and impressive on the national stage, dealing with big picture business and policy issues, he is also entirely at home at the grassroots level, delivering high quality services attuned to needs of local communities.

He is unassuming when asked how he thinks he got to this status, and his new engagement as the first chairman of the Confederation of Passenger Transport - a unique...