New government, new ideas about how to run our transport network. But the best system often escapes conversation: Regional Transport Authorities. There is no better way to organise buses, trains and trams!
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CREDITS
Music:
Gemini - The Soundlings
Photography & Imagery (in rough order of appearance. Images without obvious origins or a reference here are my own):
(Ceremonial Counties map) Dr Greg and Nilfanion. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2010, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Croydon Trams, Peter Trimming from Croydon, England, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Thames Clipper, mattbuck (category), CC BY-SA 2.0
Cable Car station (Royal Docks), DiscoA340, CC BY-SA 4.0
Boris Bikes, Sludge G, CC BY-SA 2.0
Tyne and Wear PTE bus, Secret Coach Park, CC BY-SA 2.0
Tyne and Wear Metro, Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0
Merseyside Transport buses, calflier001, CC BY-SA 2.0
Building the Metro Bridge across the Tyne, 1978, Donald MacDonald
PTE Bus, Tyne and Wear Transport Flashbacks
Margaret Thatcher, Probably Terence Donovan, Copyrighted free use
Orange GM Buses, 1985, Boxley, CC BY 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Various buses in Stockton, 1988, Graham Hogg / Bus wars in Stockton High Street (1988)
South Yorkshire Transport bus, KK70088, CC BY-SA 2.0
Nick Clegg and David Cameron, Nick Clegg CC BY 3.0
Bus cut research, Dr Malcolm Morgan (U' of Leeds) and Friends of the Earth, environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news/article/5727/new-research-shows-bus-services-outside-london-have-plummeted
Harlow Bus Station, NBC - Martin Addison
'Pacers' at Newcastle, 1987 - Rob Newman
Rail subsidy graph - Tom Leveson Gower, Office of Rail and Road, OGL 3
Nottingham Express Transit trams at Old Market Square - P L Chadwick
TfL graph - The Economist
28 Bus, Warrington - Dave Root, CC0
Reading Buses Open Day - DavidTDC3377, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nottingham City Transport buses - Matthew Black, CC BY-SA 2.0
Easyride buses - Ingy The Wingy from Lancashire, England, CC BY-SA 2.0
Rosso sale article - Charlotte Green, Rossendale Free Press, rossendalefreepress.co.uk/news/keys-rossos-fleet-handed-transdev-14188547
Halton Transport article - BBC News, bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51237490
Cardiff Bus Scania - welsh.transport, CC BY 4.0
B&H bus - Maverick Hunter Daniel
DfT data B&H - bus01
Arriva Plaxton Centro - km30192002, CC BY 2.0
Stagecoach E200 - Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0
Bus roofs at Newcastle Haymarket bus station - John Dalrymple from Morpeth, UK, CC BY 2.0
Leicester Buses depot launch - Leicester City Council, news.leicester.gov.uk/news-articles/2024/july/half-of-leicester-s-bus-network-now-electric-says-partnership/
Reading Buses Lion - reading-buses.co.uk/roarsome-new-buses-lion-4-and-x4
Nottingham City Transport route upgrade - NCT nctx.co.uk/good-news-50-service-sees-extended-hours-and-new-buses
The 36's new vehicles - Transdev transdev.com/en/sustainable-mobility/harrogate-bus-company-gets-new-generation-zero-emission-electric-buses/
Rachel Reeves - Kirsty O'Connor / Treasury, OGL 3
HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct - 42 Walkers, CC BY 4.0
Elizabeth Line budgeting - content.tfl.gov.uk/quarterly-performance-report-quarter-1-2024-25.pdf
GMCA Bee Network performance - democracy.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=34303
Transdev new Sky Class buses - transdevbus.co.uk/what-we-do-pages/sky-class/
Birmingham tram construction - Rwendland, CC BY-SA 4.0
Oyster reader, sebastiandoe5, CC BY-SA 2.0
Sadiq Khan - Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ring & Ride minibus - Gerald England, CC BY-SA 2.0
DRT Pick Me Up bus - Motacilla, CC BY-SA 4.0
Polling Station by DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0
German State Map, NordNordWest, CC BY-SA 3.0
US State Map, User:Wapcaplet, edited by User:Ed g2s, User:Dbenbenn, CC BY-SA 3.0
Spanish Autonomies map, Habbit, CC BY-SA 3.0
French Regions map, Chessrat at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
English combined authority map, XrysD, CC BY-SA 4.0
BR trains at Kings Cross, Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0
Collwall station 1980s, Ben Brooksbank
Cilmeri Halt 1986, Ben Brooksbank
Hen bont reilffordd / Disused railway bridge, Alan Richards
Rural Bus Service, Acton Turville, Gloucestershire 2013 by Ray Bird, CC BY-SA 2.0
R-Net train, Rob Dammers, CC BY 2.0
Metro mayors, Simon Walker / Deputy Prime Minister's Office, OGL 3
Class 170 crossing the Forth Bridge, Kabelleger / David Gubler, CC BY-SA 4.0
A Transport for Wales service approaching the new Bow Street station by John Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0
St Michael's Mount, Werner Wilmes, CC BY 2.0
Transport for Cornwall bus, Kk70088, CC BY-SA 4.0
West of England CA map, West of England Combined Authority
Bee Network graphics, Transport for Greater Manchester
Bus funding statistics, The Health Foundation, health.org.uk/evidence-hub/transport/transport-trends/trends-in-financial-support-for-local-bus-services
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