On the 19th December 2017, the Department for Transport published their quarterly bus statistics for Great Britain. The report shows that bus passenger journeys have decreased while local bus fares increased.
For the year ending September 2017, the number of local bus passenger journeys in:
• England was 4.40 billion, a 1.5% decrease
• London decreased by 1%
• England outside London decreased by 2%
Comparing local bus passenger journeys for July to September 2017 to the same period in 2016, we see:
• a 1.6% decrease in England
• bus use in London decreased by 0.1%
In the same period for bus use, we see:
• England outside London decreased by 3.2%.
• Scotland decreased by 3.2%
• Wales decreased by 3.8%
The local bus fares index increased by 3.3% in England between September 2016 and September 2017.
For other areas, the local bus fares index change was a:
• 1% increase in London
• 4.1% increase in metropolitan areas
• 5.3% increase in non-metropolitan areas
The retail prices index increased by 3.9% over the same 12-month period.
Local bus fares increased by:
• 2.2% in Scotland
• 1.8% in Wales
You can read the full report on the Quarterly Bus Statistics (July to September 2017) here.
Here’s a London Bus news update from LOTS:
• Route 142 duly passed to London Sovereign on the 6th, using mainly ADE class E400s. Edgware (BT) Garage is left with just five SPs while the VHRs have moved (with route 183 ) to Harrow (SO) Garage. That is no too fill, so E200s for the 398 and H17 are now running out of Park Royal (RP) Garage.
It’s worth noting that the VHR is the two-door, one-staircase SRM (design based on the New Routemaster) with the Volvo B5LH hybrid system.
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