Buses are the poor relation of rail in Wales, says industry body

Rhodri Clark
26 June 2015
Wales: bus passenger numbers dwindling
Wales: bus passenger numbers dwindling

 

Passenger journeys on Welsh buses reached a record low in 2013/14, according to industry body CPT Cymru. 

The long-term decline in bus patronage was temporarily reversed when Wales’ free travel scheme for retired and disabled people began in 2002. Patronage declined from 125 million journeys in 2008/09 to 116 in 2009/10, coinciding with the economic crisis, but stabilised at 115 million in the following two years. It fell to 108 million in 2012/13, and then 107 million in...

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