Buses

Image of Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham and his West of Englad counterpart Dan Norris.

Reports

West of England mayor holds talks with Andy Burnham about bus franchising after local campaign

Metro Mayor Dan Norris has faced months of calls to formally explore taking Bristol's struggling bus services back into public control.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Future of Cities

Image of a modern tram travelling along a narrow street in Bordeaux (credit: Per Karlsson / Alamy)

Trams, or an underground? As Bristol weighs its public transport options, can it learn from across the Channel?

Steve Melia
Steve Melia

Reports

Campaigners renew calls for metro mayor to bring struggling buses back into public hands

Jonathan Eldridge
Jonathan Eldridge

Area in Focus

Funding, franchising and finding solutions: exploring south Bristol’s bus crisis

In the midst of bus cuts, local residents came together with councillors and transport providers to discuss transport in Bedminster. But is too much responsibility being put on the community to find the solution?

Daisy Steinhardt
Daisy Steinhardt
Image of Bernice McKendrick, a south Bristol resident affected by cuts to the region's buses (credit: Julian Preece)

Area in Focus

‘Instead of 20 people on the bus, we’ll have 10 taxis’: how cuts to Bristol’s buses are hitting BS3

Jonathan Eldridge Mary Holditch
Jonathan Eldridge and Mary Holditch

Future of Cities

‘The company needs to be held accountable’: Bristol passengers speak out about bus misery

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Reports

West of England bus passengers face more cuts as dozens of services to be axed in April

About 42 bus services in the region face the axe, although there is confusion over exactly which ones.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Bristol councillors back bringing buses into public control amid cuts to services

Political pressures is growing on Dan Norris, the West of England metro mayor, to explore how a bus franchising model could solve the wider Bristol region’s bus crisis.

Alex Seabrook
Alex Seabrook (Local Democracy Reporter)