\u00a0 \u00a0 A new report, Implementation of the National Bus Strategy, published by the committee last week, calls for more consistent funding to achieve the government\u2019s goal of having 4,000 new zero-emission buses by 2024, which \u201cseems increasingly unlikely to be met\u201d. And whilst a transition to zero emission buses is essential, \u201cefforts to encourage people out of their cars by making bus services more reliable should also be prioritised to help cut carbon emissions\u201d. <\/p>\n The committee also called for reform of the Bus Service Operators Grant so that operators \u201caren\u2019t incentivised to stick to diesel vehicles\u201d, and new guidance on how local authorities can support socially necessary services.<\/p>\n There have been some successes, such as the recently announced Bus Centre of Excellence, but not all local areas in England have received sufficient funding to realise their ambitions and make a real difference<\/p>\n \u201cThe government\u2019s 2021 National Bus Strategy recognised that something had to be done,\u201d said committee chair Iain Stewart. \u201cWe warmly welcomed its ambition and invention, as did many others in the sector.<\/p>\n \u201cBut our report finds that, while many of the strategy\u2019s ideas were on the right track, progress in implementing them has sometimes been too slow, and in some cases, too piecemeal. There have been some successes, such as the recently announced Bus Centre of Excellence, but not all local areas in England have received sufficient funding to realise their ambitions and make a real difference.\u201d <\/p>\n \u00a0 DON\u2019T MISS OUT \u2013 GET YOUR COPY! \u2013\u00a0click here to subscribe!<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The post Bus strategy progress \u2018too slow, too piecemeal\u2019<\/a> first appeared on Passenger Transport<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u200b\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greater support and more consistent funding is needed to deliver vision of the Bus Back Better strategy, Transport Committee tells government \u00a0Iain Stewart:\u2019many of the strategy\u2019s ideas were on the right track\u2019 \u00a0 Two years on from the launch of the National Bus Strategy for England, MPs on the Commons Transport Committee have expressed concerns about the pace of delivery.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camcab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Iain Stewart:\u2019many of the strategy\u2019s ideas were on the right track\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTwo years on from the launch of the National Bus Strategy for England, MPs on the Commons Transport Committee have expressed concerns about the pace of delivery. They have urged the government to maintain its focus and provide greater support.<\/p>\n
This story appears in the latest issue of\u00a0Passenger Transport<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n