A fairer deal for buses in Scotland
Transform Scotland’s work on calling for stronger governmental support for buses has recently been featured in EuroTransport, the international transport magazine. The article sets out the testing situation which bus users and companies are currently facing in Scotland and highlights the worrying decline in bus patronage in recent years. Recent cutbacks to bus services in Dumfries and […]
Scotland wide Holyrood Magazine has covered the campaign, stating: “Transport campaigners have called for tax relief to extend to public transport users amid claims it is a “nonsense” such incentives encompass workplace parking but not bus commuters. Transform Scotland chair Phil Matthews said it is “now imperative that government turns more of its attention” to reversing a fall […]
Glasgow’s Evening Times has covered the campaign, stating: “The Bus Fair initiative also wants more priority bus lanes to be created to help speed up journeys and is urging the UK Government to provide tax relief on public transport season tickets. “The campaign, by the sustainable transport body Transform Scotland, says it is “unfair” that […]
We’re pleased to see that the Courier has covered our Bus Fair campaign. The paper reports: “The campaign, by the sustainable transport body Transform Scotland, says it is “unfair” that commuters who travel to work by bus do not benefit from schemes such as tax incentives for workplace parking and the Cycle to Work scheme, […]
We’re very pleased to see that STV have picked up on the Bus Fair campaign launch, with ‘Campaigners demands better incentives for bus passengers’: “The campaign, by the sustainable transport body Transform Scotland, says it is “unfair” that commuters who travel to work by bus do not benefit from schemes such as tax incentives for […]
Nice piece in Holyrood magazine, Scotland’s leading current affairs journal, on the campaign: “Transport campaigners have called for tax relief to extend to public transport users amid claims it is a “nonsense” such incentives encompass workplace parking but not bus commuters. “Transform Scotland, a charity that advocates sustainable transport and has a membership of over […]
We’re pleased to see that The Herald has covered the Bus Fair campaign launch: “A SCOTLAND-WIDE smartcard for the entire transport network would help give travellers a fairer deal and tackle the decline in bus journeys, according to campaigners. “The Bus Fair initiative also wants more priority bus lanes to be created to help speed […]
Transform Scotland NEWS RELEASE Monday 14 March 2016 CAMPAIGN LAUNCH CALLS FOR ‘FAIR DEAL FOR SCOTLAND’S BUS USERS’: Bus campaign publishes new research setting out contribution of bus commuters to Scottish economy Transform Scotland [1] has today (Monday 14 Mar) launched a new campaign calling for a fairer deal for Scotland’s bus users. The ‘Bus […]
Further investment and prioritisation in bus lane infrastructure is needed to help tackle congestion in Scotland’s major cities, a transport leader has argued. Fiona Kerr, Managing Director for First Bus in Scotland, said that increasing traffic numbers in Glasgow in recent years have increased journey times and caused problems for the city’s major roads, despite efforts to […]
Alasdair Dalton, transport correspondent for the Scotsman, makes the case for stricter bus priority measures in order to create a “fundamental attitudinal shift” towards buses. Nearly five times as many people in Scotland take the bus as take the train, yet there is still not adequate funding into buses to make them first choice over cars. […]