
En route to renewal: Delivering better, greener buses
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Good buses drive a strong economy, healthy environment and thriving society.
They can accelerate growth and enhance access to opportunity, economic or cultural, while helping clean our air and reduce our carbon emissions. Our research finds that an ambitious modal shift target, accompanied by appropriate funding, can unlock buses’ economic, environmental and social value. This requires providing people with a realistic alternative to cars.
In this report, we propose eight principles for better buses, setting the standard for what governance and funding reforms should seek to achieve. Now is the moment to set these in motion to build better local bus networks in every community: a visible and tangible change for everyone.
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