About 10 years ago, Blackpool realised that its tramway was falling apart, quite literally. The track was knackered, the electrical infrastructure north of Cleveleys had never been touched and the depot infrastructure was tired. The solution? Submit ambitious plans to upgrade into a modern super-tramway with fully accessible contemporary trams, new track and infrastructure. Many [...]

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Industry suffers rising costs and falling productivity A combination of rising real-term costs and falling productivity is depressing bus industry profits, according to new research TAS has just published. As a consequence, the level of returns being achieved by bus companies are much too low to be sustainable in the long term. The 2009 edition [...]

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TASPUBS brand new online Business Monitor service. Visit the TAS Business Monitor web site http://www.tas-passtrans.co.uk/content/ for more info

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In November, we published a new study which sets bus fare levels in the context of trends in demand, costs and profit levels. The report underlines that determining bus fares is a complex process that is influenced by a wide range of factors, including: the level of and changes in operating costs the level of [...]

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This is the first post since the start of the autumn, and I must apologise for the long silence.  This has been caused by pressure of events, not least the highly successful staging of the UK Bus Awards 2009, which took place at the London Hilton Hotel on 12 November. We have also been working [...]

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