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Post by snowman on Jul 6, 2018 9:09:45 GMT
DfT has launched a consultation to make bus info compulsory across the UK Most of this info is already in use in London (but doesn't always apply to cross border routes) Also requires full audio and visual info on the bus (so no more buses with faulty destination displays on the bus) DfT consultation ─ Route and timetable information by end of 2019. ─ Basic fare and ticket information by end of 2020. ─ Real time information by end of 2020. ─ Complex fare and ticket information by end of 2022. If I have read it correctly will be primary legislation, so buses without working live updates wont be allowed |
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Post by snoggle on Jul 6, 2018 18:12:03 GMT
DfT has launched a consultation to make bus info compulsory across the UK Most of this info is already in use in London (but doesn't always apply to cross border routes) Also requires full audio and visual info on the bus (so no more buses with faulty destination displays on the bus) DfT consultation ─ Route and timetable information by end of 2019. ─ Basic fare and ticket information by end of 2020. ─ Real time information by end of 2020. ─ Complex fare and ticket information by end of 2022. If I have read it correctly will be primary legislation, so buses without working live updates wont be allowed Seems a pointless exercise to load more cost on to operators and councils without any increase in govt funding. This government doesn't give a toss about buses or those who are dependent on them. Seems the DfT haven't even read their own document - why is there is a footer on each page saying "NOT FOR ONWARD DISTRIBUTION"? It's a pdf of a consultation document - of course you want it to be forwarded!!!  I may add further comments later as I am reading the consultation document. |
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Post by wirewiper on Jul 7, 2018 10:34:32 GMT
Great, oh [expletive deleted] great.
Bus services are in the midst of what everybody but the current government seems to recognise is a crisis. Are they doing anything at all to try and fix this? No, all they are doing as adding a layer of totally unnecessary costs onto bus operators - costs which it would appear must be borne by the operators themselves as there appears to be no government funding to help operators meet the new standard. Real-time information is great - but small operators cannot afford the extra cost of installing systems that would enable it, and many of the most disadvantaged in society - people who are more likely to rely on a bus service - won't have access to the information anyway.
All this will do is push even more cost-marginal but socially vital bus services over the precipice into oblivion.
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