Urgent action is needed to reverse England’s bus decline

Urgent action is needed to reverse England’s bus decline

A new Transport Committee report has warned that a decade of shrinking bus networks in England has left many towns and villages cut off, and calls on the Government to adopt a national ambition for minimum public transport connectivity by 2028–29. The report highlights that bus use outside London has fallen from 4.6 billion journeys in 2009 to 3.6 billion in 2024, a 21.7% decline. Between 2019 and 2024, services in county and unitary areas dropp…