Tyne Tees

Calls to end bus privatisation

1,500 people have signed a petition calling on councils to take back control over routes, timetables and fares.

5:42 pm, Tue 18 Sep 2012

Full report: Petition calls for end to privatised bus services

by Ben Chapman

Fifteen hundred people have signed a petition calling for an end to twenty five years of privatised bus services in Tyne and Wear.

Next week, councillors will decide whether to strip private bus companies of control over routes, timetables and fares. It would be the first area outside London to do so.

3:47 pm, Tue 18 Sep 2012

Passengers on proposed bus shake-up

Bus passengers in Washington have been commenting on proposals to end 25 years of bus privatisation in Tyne & Wear. Councillors will decide next week whether to strip bus companies of control over routes, timetables and fares.