| Bus deregulation - on this day 26th October 1986 Posted by grahame at 06:00, 26th October 2024 |     |
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Bus deregulation in Great Britain involved the abolition of Road Service Licensing for bus services outside of Greater London. It began in 1980 with long-distance bus services and was extended to local bus services in 1986 under the Transport Act 1985. The abolition of Road Service Licensing removed the public sector's role in fare-setting, routes, and bus frequencies and returned those powers to bus operators.
| Re: Bus deregulation - on this day 26th October 1986 Posted by grahame at 03:34, 26th October 2026 | |
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Bus deregulation in Great Britain involved the abolition of Road Service Licensing for bus services outside of Greater London. It began in 1980 with long-distance bus services and was extended to local bus services in 1986 under the Transport Act 1985. The abolition of Road Service Licensing removed the public sector's role in fare-setting, routes, and bus frequencies and returned those powers to bus operators.
40 years ago today. For the most part, the early days of commercially run buses rushing to pick up passengers on core trunk routes while the vital but much thinner branched languishes and lost service are over. The legal requirement to not work with other operators because that might form an anti-competitive cartel has been broadly overcome by Enhanced Partnerships. So many socially necessary services have been lost due to lack of either commercial balance or local authority money to buy them back. Tricky subsidising decisions that must show clear water (or a crevasse) between commercial and supported services such that a supported service must not abstract substantive traffic from a commercial one lead to both services being the poorer and less passenger appropriate.
