Property News · September 3, 2013

Bus test case looms as Tyne & Wear seeks to wrestle back routes


Council seeking better value for public money appears on collision course with private operators such as Arriva and StagecoachA rainbow of buses plies the streets of Newcastle: green, purple, yellow, turquoise, blue, striped, even the odd red one for traditionalists. This is the most visible legacy of one of the Thatcher government’s earliest privatisations back in 1985. Now, for the first time since public buses were deregulated, a city is trying to reassert control.With the north-east hit hard by economic stagnation and central government funding for councils squeezed, the local authority is looking increasingly askance at a system that takes in £62m of public funding a year, while fares rise and operators reap large profits. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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