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Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

September 10th - Bus Wars

Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

The Independent

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

3.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Rail commuters disappear.


Bus wars in Bristol and beyond.


Jet Airways trying to revive itself.


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Transcript

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0:32.3

Hello, Simon Calder here, and you are very welcome to the Green List.

0:38.3

Yes, bringing you the latest on travel and developments from around the world with the independent and of course your ears.

0:48.3

Well yes, I'm here in Bristol but I'm going to be bringing you news of a collapse in commuters on the railways.

0:56.3

Bus wars which are breaking out especially here in Bristol and jet airways wants to be

1:04.3

resurrected but it's facing problems. Well as anybody who was a commuter will know, either they are not commuting by rail,

1:17.3

or they are, and they're finding the trains pleasingly empty. Well, they might be pleased,

1:25.0

but the rail delivery group certainly isn't this is the association for train operators and also network rail

1:34.0

now just a refresher about how the rail industry works as you will know it takes in about 10 billion pounds a year

1:43.9

from fares or at least it did, until 2020.

1:48.8

That revenue has collapsed. More concerningly, perhaps, it was entirely based, at least for the bedrock of that money on commuters season tickets,

2:03.2

particularly in London and South East England.

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