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** £2 bus fare cap
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Hello

We're celebrating a double bus campaign victory! The temporary £2 bus fare cap ([link removed]) announced at the weekend was one of our campaign asks which will help to tackle the cost of living crisis AND boost passenger numbers.

We called for a cap because bus fares have risen by 65 per cent in a decade - far faster than rail fares and motoring costs - and were becoming unaffordable for many people. This cap will be a great relief to the millions of people who rely on buses, especially the 35 per cent of low-income households that have no car and are more likely to use buses.

We're hoping the cap will also help encourage more people to find their nearest bus stop and give the bus a try for just £2. If everyone switched just one car journey a month to bus, there would be a billion fewer car journeys and a saving of two million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. A small change that really could make a big difference!


** Extra bus funding
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The second success we can claim to have directly helped achieve is the additional £130 million of government funding to support English bus services ([link removed]) until the Spring. This extension of the Covid recovery funding will hopefully stave off the widespread cuts to services expected when the previous funding ran out at the end of this month. We campaigned for this extension to try to prevent more service cuts after our research ([link removed]) revealed more than a quarter of English bus services have been lost in a decade, with 16 per cent of the cuts happening in the first year of the pandemic.

This additional funding, coupled with the fare cap, are both very welcome, but they are still short-term sticking plasters. What we now want to see is long-term funding and fares reform to set buses on the road to a brighter future.
Read our buses research ([link removed])
Man looking out of bus window "I relied on the bus to get to work; now the service I used has been cut and I have to get two trains; twice the journey time and three times the cost."
- Duncan, Melton Mowbray
These successes have been in no small part down to you, our supporters. Without your continued support we simply wouldn't be able to carry on championing bus services and standing up for passengers. Keep up the good work!

Till next time,
Paul

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