NATIONAL TRANSPORT AWARDS 🏆 | The @TransportTimes National Transport Awards took place on October 2 in London. You can read all about the winners in this official Souvenir Brochure, the National Transport Awards Book of Winners 2025 #UKNTAs25
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OUT NOW 🗞️ | Inside Passenger Transport: Wrightbus looks to closer EU ties, mayors gain financial powers, and rail tackles weather disruption. Plus news, comment and interviews from across the sector.

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INTERVIEW 🎙️ | ‘My leadership ethos is servant leadership’. Caroline Wilson (@MrsRecruiter75) meets Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Anna Malone to discuss supporting teams, letting go of perfection and delivering bus franchising.

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COMMENT 🗣️ | Young people need better transport. Ben Plowden of @CBTransport argues that affordable public transport and safe walking, wheeling and cycling routes are essential to opening up education, jobs and independence.

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COMMENT 🗣️ | Our railway needs retail competition. @AlexWarner5 argues that independent ticket retailers such as Trainline have helped transform the passenger experience — and must be allowed to keep doing so.

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NEWS 📰 | How rail is working to cut weather disruption. Lord Hendy wants the railway to “max out” on technology, with smarter monitoring and closer cooperation between track and train.
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NEWS 📰 | Wrightbus seeks boost from closer EU ties. Could proposed European procurement rules help UK bus builders compete with overseas rivals?
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FUTURE OF BUS 🚍 | Keeping First’s people moving - How First Bus is supporting workforce wellbeing with @SimplyhealthUK and is reaping the rewards
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FUTURE OF BUS 🚍 | @velociti_solns evolves operations platform - Solutions specialist is reimagining scheduling and operations with a new platform built from the ground up and shaped by the industry
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FUTURE OF BUS 🚍 | The old order meets the new - Established manufacturers face growing competition from ambitious overseas newcomers
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COMMENT 🗣️ | Retention is the new recruitment - @NinaLockwood explains why bringing more women into the fold is a huge achievement, but a door that people walk straight back out of isn’t much of a victory
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COMMENT 🗣️ | Fen Line fiasco raises big questions - Hundreds of cancellations have hit confidence in the Fen Line. @AlexWarner5 says restoring reliability will take more than a change of ownership
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COMMENT 🗣️ | Deeper devolution can deliver more - Richard McGuckin, chair of @UTG_UK, writes: "If we deepen devolution further, the prize could be even bigger: better transport connectivity, more homes and stronger local economies"
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NEWS 📰 | CPT Scotland calls for urgent meeting with Swinney - First Minister used the SNP Conference to announce expansion of the £2 fare cap and plans to bring buses under public control by 2031
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NATIONAL TRANSPORT AWARDS 🏆 | The @TransportTimes National Transport Awards took place on October 1 in London. You can read all about the winners in this official Souvenir Brochure, the National Transport Awards Book of Winners 2026
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COMMENT 🗣️ | High street revival needs better buses - A successful high street requires people. People require reasons to visit, but they also require a practical way of getting there - writes @AlexWarner5
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COMMENT 🗣️ | Why oppose this modest experiment? Peter Robinson explains why Transport for London should be running its own buses and the industry should get on board and treat this as an opportunity
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LEADERSHIP STORIES 📖 | "My door is always open, literally" - Caroline Wilson (@MrsRecruiter75), MD and founder at The Recruitment Story, meets Godfrey Mawoyo, operations director at @reading_buses
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FUTURE OF RAIL 🚆 | "They want to come in, help you, introduce you and give you opportunities" - Mike Hughes talks to @richardsalkeld, of Newcastle-based Lumo, about how the operator is supporting local communities
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FEATURE 📰 | When Walls Speak Welcome - How @Translink_NI, children and artists collaborated to create bold public art that welcomes everyone
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