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IT’S time to take back control of Britain’s ailing bus networks, transport workers and MPs are demanding as new research showed bus journeys at a 12-year low.
Department for Transport figures published today show 1.2 billion local bus journeys were made between April and June in Britain — a 10 per cent decrease since the peak of 1.33 billion between July and September 2008.
Demand for bus travel has not been this low since the beginning of 2006.
British cross-border train fares far outstrip flights, ranking among Europe’s worst
RMT’s former president ALEX GORDON explains why his union supports defence diversification and a just transition for workers in regions dependent on military contracts, and calls on readers to join CND’s demo against nuclear-armed submarines on June 7