A bus seven minutes late is still on time – Traffic Commissioner

Punctuality: rules relaxed

Punctuality: rules relaxed

The Traffic Commissioners are proposing to give bus operators across Britain more leeway over what constitutes running services to time.

Since 2002 the Senior Traffic Commissioner definition of ‘on time’ has been for a bus to depart a timing point within a ‘window of tolerance’ of one minute early and five minutes late. 

But new GB-wide guidance published by Senior Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell for consultation proposes that the window should be enlarged to...

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