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OUT NOW 🗞️ | Click the link for a summary of what's inside this week's issue of Passenger Transport. Don't miss out, subscribe today! 🚍🚆🚇 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yh4r84nh

NEWS 📰 | Ambitious £2.1bn rail proposals for North Wales for the next decade and beyond were announced by Ken Skates, Welsh cabinet secretary for transport and North Wales, at the first Welsh Public Transport Summit last week 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🚆 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4t54v2n9

"He was a genius” - The bus industry has reacted with shock to the news that Go South Coast managing director Andrew Wickham passed away last weekend after a long battle with cancer ➡️ tinyurl.com/sxk5rc5t

COMMENT 🗣️ | From Istanbul to London by train. Norman Baker experienced trains, trams and trolleybuses on a recent journey across Europe – and spied some interesting contrasts with Britain 🇹🇷🚆🇬🇧 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mefjtmsd

COMMENT 🗣️ | The missing buses of Britain - Passenger numbers have returned faster than bus services in the period since Covid. Marc 🏳️‍🌈🚍📚 asks whether bus operators getting the balance right? 🚍👀 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4nde628s

COMMENT 🗣️ | Bus franchising is not a silver bullet - Stagecoach shares the Welsh Government’s goals for buses. But to achieve those goals, Stagecoach South Wales MD Martin Gibbon says reform must build on what already works 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🚍 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4uxhacew

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NEWS 📰 | Funding package is ‘huge vote of confidence’. Chancellor announces £15.6bn of funding for local transport projects in England’s city regions, £2.3bn for other areas and extends £3 bus fare cap 🚍🚆 ➡️ tinyurl.com/464654pw

NEWS 📰 | Bus franchising ‘may not meet expectations’. Louise Cheeseman, former TfL director of buses, warns of lack of expertise while others say public expectation levels are high for franchising schemes 🚍👀 ➡️ tinyurl.com/ya9bv2tw

COMMENT 🗣️ | Bee Network offers blueprint for Britain. As Anne-Marie Purcell bids farewell to the Bee Network and its striking yellow buses, she does so with immense pride - and says it’s a model that others can follow 🚍🐝 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mw4wdnj8

COMMENT 🗣️ | Putting rail’s jigsaw puzzle together - We might not have all the pieces, but Nina Lockwood 🐝 believes we have enough to make a very good start. Let’s begin transforming the UK rail industry 🚆🧩 ➡️ tinyurl.com/ye2h5asf

UITP SUMMIT 🌍 | Smarter data, better buses. Collaboration with CitySwift has been a win for passengers, operators and Transport for London. Learn more at #UITPSummit ➡️ tinyurl.com/yws45ses

COMMENT 🗣️ | Alex Warner asks... Do we have our fingers on the pulse? How well does public transport understand its existing and potential customers, and the societal trends that influence them? 🚍👆❤️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/36c68cvx

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NEWS 📰 | Joint working group to save Scottish ADL jobs. UK Government and Scottish Government are working jointly to explore options to prevent the loss of 400 bus manufacturing jobs in Scotland 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚍 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yc28xttx

NEWS 📰 | Public transport must be a ‘climate priority’. More than 10,000 public transport professionals gathered in Hamburg last week for the #UITPSummit – an event which is set to become annual 🌍🚍🚆 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4mhrruuh

NEWS 📰 | SMEs to have focus in Welsh franchising plan. Transport for Wales confirms contracts will be structures in a way that protects and encourages greater involvement from the SME sector 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🚍 ➡️ tinyurl.com/2hf52phe

COMMENT 🗣️ | Norman Baker asks: "Why do so many public sector projects in Britain turn into embarrassing fiascos – massively expensive, heavily over budget, late to be delivered, and faulty when supposedly complete?" 🚍🚆🚨 ➡️ tinyurl.com/hnxk9fzn

COMMENT 🗣️ | It’s hard to believe midsummer’s night has been and gone and it’s all downhill now with the evenings’ drawing in. It’s time for Alex Warner to offer his half-term report, with some hopes and fears for the remainder of 2025 thrown in 👍👎 ➡️ tinyurl.com/ms6by6fr

COMMENT 🗣️ | Marc Winsland breaks down the transport bonanza. "Sing Alleluia and let the word go forth: white smoke has billowed from the chimney atop Number 11 – we have a Spending Review" 🚍🚆💷 ➡️ tinyurl.com/7yxzhyvj