https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/bus-cuts
Bus cuts leave a million people without a regular service
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/bus-cuts
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Bus cuts leave a million people without a regular service
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/bus-cuts
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2020-03-16T13:54:27.000Z (about 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-03-25T14:56:42.000Z (about 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:42:19.383Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: buses, disability, panorama, transport
- Language: HTML
- Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51815726
- Size: 5.85 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# Bus cuts leave a million people without a regular service
More than a million people now live at least a mile from a bus stop with a regular service (calling on average four times a day).
Meanwhile the number of people using concessionary bus passes for older and disabled people has fallen by almost a fifth in a decade and government support for buses is down about £800m a year in real terms.
The government is putting £5bn over five years towards buses and cycling in England.
BBC Panorama [looked at the situation facing Britain’s bus services in a programme on 16 March 2020](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ggpr). The data unit contributed to the programme and [reported](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51815726) on the story for BBC Online.
## Get the data
* Department for Transport: [Older and disabled concessionary travel passes1,2 by metropolitan area status and type of pass: England, annual from 2010/11](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/bus-cuts/blob/master/bus0820.ods)
* Department for Transport: [Number of older/disabled concessionary travel passes1 and bus concessionary journeys2 per pass by metropolitan area status: England, annual from 2010/11](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/bus-cuts/blob/master/bus0821%20(1).ods)
* Department for Transport: [Concessionary bus journeys1,2 by Travel Concession Authority (TCA): England, annual from 2014/15](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/bus-cuts/blob/master/bus0823%20(1).ods)
## Quotes and interviews
* Marion Crawford, 92-year-old bus user from Lower Denby, West Yorkshire
* Paul Jones, chief officer, Denby Dale Centre, which provides a charity-funded bus service
* Judith Lawrence, 75, bus user from Helperby, North Yorkshire
* Marti Blagborough, construction worker, Farnley
* Martin Kelly, director of growth and development, Blackburn with Darwen Council
* Spokesperson, Stoke-on-Trent City Council
* Spokeswoman, Department for Transport (DfT)
* Darren Shirley, Campaign for Better Transport (CBT)
* Spokesman, Somerset County Council
## Visualisation
* Map: households' distance from a bus stop with at least four buses per day
* Bar chart: Fall in miles travelled since 2010, by region
* Line chart: Journeys by older and disabled people in England, England vs London, 2010-2019