Bus fares

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  Scrapping free bus passes for older people would 'cost over £1.7bn a year'

  9 Sep 2014: Study finds that for every £1 spent on the bus pass, more than £2.87 of benefits for society and wider economy were generated

• Free bus passes under threat and the pensioners who are fighting back

  6 Sep 2014: A campaign to save a much-treasured freedom, will deliver a petition with 140,000 signatures to No 10 (by bus of course)

• The great Boris bus stop

  30 Aug 2014: Mayor Johnson’s attitude to London’s bus service demonstrates the type of politician he is and why his predecessor was a better mayor
  

• Buses are the future of urban transport. No, really

  27 Aug 2014: Adam Greenfield explains why many urbanists think the lowly bus – emblem of all that is slow, stigmatised and wasteful – is the key to city transit ... and that Latin America is the only place doing it right
  

• Bus deregulation outside London has been a failure – thinktank report

  26 Aug 2014: Bus passenger journeys outside London have fallen by 32.5% since 1986, but within the capital they have risen by 99%

• We bought a house in Oxford. Just one problem: it's 60 miles from my desk

  4 Jul 2014: Graeme Wearden: Commuting between Oxford and London can be a drag, but I see Oxfordshire before me and it all feels just about worthwhile

• Have you ever dodged a fare?

  14 Apr 2014: Paula Cocozza: Have you ever jumped a barrier or travelled on the wrong ticket? And did you get away with it?

• Parents fight cuts to free school buses in David Cameron's constituency

  26 Dec 2013: Residents in Oxfordshire hold public meetings and mount Facebook campaign as councils are forced to restrict services

• Boris Johnson's latest fares hike: devils, details and the London cost of living

  4 Dec 2013:

  Although presented as a freeze, the mayor's new fares package will increase many public transport fares by more than inflation and add to the cost of living burden on Londoners

• Calls for inflation-only train fare rises after Boris Johnson's tube move

  3 Dec 2013: George Osborne urged to match London mayor and 'end decade of above inflation rail fare rises' in Thursday's autumn statement

• Most London transport fares frozen in real terms in 2014

  3 Dec 2013: Some tube users face above-inflation rises when the new prices take effect in January

• Shadow transport minister Mary Creagh sets out Labour's 2015 priorities

  Guardian Professional, 18 Nov 2013:

  • Cycle safety and capping rail fares high on Labour manifesto agenda
  • Government has 'failed to sell benefits of HS2'
  • Less than a fifth of UK railway stations have step-free access

• London has more bus journeys than the rest of England combined

  24 Sep 2013:

  Last year London had more bus passenger journeys than the rest of England put together. While bus travel in the capital continues to stay strong, is the rest of England bored of buses?

• Where are London's buses going?

  10 Sep 2013:

  The bus is the capital's most heavily-used form of public transport yet Boris Johnson has no plans to enlarge the network to meet fast-growing demand

• Bus test case looms as Tyne & Wear seeks to wrestle back routes

  2 Sep 2013: Council seeking better value for public money appears on collision course with private operators such as Arriva and Stagecoach

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