It is accepted wisdom that the short term prognosis for UK bus businesses is a grim struggle whilst the long term prognosis sees those businesses benefitting from an inevitable focus on environmental sustainability addressing the damage caused by acute traffic congestion and air pollution even if we replace self driven petrol and diesel with autonomous electric. The grim struggle sees the industry camped on the doorstep of the DfT with a begging bowl for subsidy whilst it should be rolling its sleeves up and getting stuck into the Dozen Do’s which can lift UK bus networks from the doldrums post Brexit and Covid on a pathway of year on year organic growth to match, and then surpass, pre Covid levels of demand.
The full list of the Dozen Do's are below