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We’ve exhausted the benefits of bus deregulation

John Disney, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham NG1
08 January 2016
 

The ongoing debate on bus Quality Contracts and regulation fails to address the fundamental issue that, away from a diminishing core of urban and interurban routes, the bus industry is in crisis and many services will vanish completely in the next decade.

Deregulation was moderately successful for its first 15 years as local authorities had sufficient funding to support tendered services to fill the gaps in the commercial network, and newly privatised operators generated efficiency savings...

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