REGULATIONS *UK - Buses face a free ride in a difficult direction
Free bus travel for the over-60s and disabled will go nationwide in April, and yet in some areas there may be fewer or no buses to use
Leeds,England,UK -The Yorkshire Post, by Ray Wilkes -9 Jan 2008: -- ... Inter-urban services on long routes give the best chance of adequate provision in rural areas. But now EU regulations requiring the use of tachographs and more restrictive working hours for routes over 50 kilometres, may force bus companies to cut some of these routes... If unitary local authorities cut tendered services, they will also cut the cost of concessions, a perverse incentive indeed... Free travel has positive side-effects; it is reducing car use. This eases congestion which is a major problem for everyone, and an economic burden for commercial road-users. First Leeds has to use more than 20 extra daily buses, costing more than £2m annually, to maintain. This could be spent on newer buses and cheaper fares if Leeds had been as effective with bus priorities...
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