A plan from Brussels so bad that even our government opposes it

Just for once our ministers seem ready to back us in Brussels. Can they amend the European Passenger Rights Directive?

Ben Colson
22 October 2009
A directive fit for purpose for the airline industry is to be applied to local bus services, like this Western Greyhound service in Cornwall
A directive fit for purpose for the airline industry is to be applied to local bus services, like this Western Greyhound service in Cornwall

 

It happened before my eyes one bright autumnal morning in London about 10 years ago. I had read about it, colleagues had told me about it, but I doubted that I would ever see it for my own eyes.

As I stepped out of a Barclays Bank on the Edgware Road a number 52 bus was coming up the road, away from Marble Arch. The bank entrance was at the apex between the main road and a little cul de sac. Parked in the cul de sac was an old, battered, white van. As the bus approached, so it moved forward and...

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