COMMENT 🗣️ | Why projects like SEStransit matter - Rachael Murphy of SEStran explains why the best transport networks do more than move people from A to B. They connect communities and unlock opportunities 🚍🚊🚆 ➡️ tinyurl.com/2xmntfx8

LEADERSHIP STORIES 📖 | ‘I get to make a positive difference’ - Caroline Wilson (@MrsRecruiter75), MD and founder at The Recruitment Story, meets Colette Casey, customer experience director at LNER 🚆 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3wtrh3ms

COMMENT 🗣️ | Employee wellbeing isn’t a luxury. Alex Warner spoke to Transport Benevolent Fund CEO John Sheehy about changes in the industry, and why care for employees is a priority 🚍🛟 ➡️ tinyurl.com/m74af2jc

NEWS 📰 | £2 fare cap welcomed – but clarity is sought. Stakeholders in the bus sector welcomed the new prime minister’s decision to restore England’s £2 bus fare cap but they want a long-term funding plan 🚍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4e9tj7dz

NEWS 📰 | ‘No one should be priced out’ - Prime minister Andy Burnham announces restoration of England’s £2 bus fare cap from January 🚍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yyktnt3n

OUT NOW 🗞️ | Click the link for a summary of what's inside this week's issue of Passenger Transport. Don't miss out, subscribe today! 🚍🚆🚇 ➡️ tinyurl.com/bpavz5t2

LEADERSHIP STORIES 📖 | "I’ve learned to trust my judgement" - Caroline Wilson, MD and founder at The Recruitment Story, meets Martin Dean, MD of Go-Ahead’s regional bus division ➡️ tinyurl.com/ypmnkf2e

COMMENT 🗣️ | The railway has been feeling the heat - The rail crash at Bedford and the impact of the heatwave on services across the country has made this a challenging time for rail. Alex Warner offers his thoughts 🚆 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3p842t5x

COMMENT 🗣️ | How the Germans do bus franchising - Franchising is one of the three main types of bus operation in Germany, accounting for 40% of all bus kilometres nationwide. Anshel Cohen of KCW explains 🚍🇩🇪 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3k7s846k

COMMENT 🗣️ | King of the North marches south! Marc Winsland says there is no denying that Andy Burnham’s impact has been felt in Manchester, especially for transport - but what kind of PM will he be? 👑🚍🚆 ➡️ tinyurl.com/2jkct3jp

NEWS 📰 | Little interest in modal integration in Wales - The first ever Welsh National Travel Survey has shown lower than planned modal shift while revealing the public’s priorities. Rhodri Clark reports 🚍🚆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ➡️ tinyurl.com/dwun8zvc

NEWS 📰 | A ‘rewired’ Britain – with rewired transport. Andy Burnham promises ‘the biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen’, with better transport seen as key to delivering nationwide growth 🚍🚆🇬🇧 ➡️ tinyurl.com/22vkfwup

SCOTTISH TRANSPORT AWARDS 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | The Scottish Transport Awards took place on June 11 in Glasgow and you can read all about the winners in this official Souvenir Brochure, the Scottish Transport Awards Book of Winners 2026 #STAs26 ⭐️🎉🍾 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3w3t2r7k

FUTURE OF RAIL 🚆 | How collaboration powered e-ticketing - John Davies of Trainline says replacing orange paper tickets with e-ticketing required the rail industry to rethink both its technology and how it works together ➡️ tinyurl.com/vyjyyahh

FUTURE OF BUS 🚍 | The road towards ‘Vision Zero’. Eight years after launching the original Bus Safety Standard, Transport for London has unveiled BSS2. Kerri Cheek of TfL provides insights ➡️ tinyurl.com/3dmmfkwa

COMMENT 🗣️ | Infrastructure isn’t the point, people are - Nina Lockwood says that the merits of projects are usually looked at through an economic or operational lens, but rarely through the eyes of the passenger 🚆🏗️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/y7xakbn9

COMMENT 🗣️ | Christian Wolmar (@christianwolmar.bsky.social) explains why the failings of Hs2 and other projects should not cloud over the extraordinary story of high-speed rail across the world 🚅🌍 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3tjh4fw6

COMMENT 🗣️ | The good, the bad and the ugly of 2026 - "It’s mid-June now folks and where have the last six months gone?" Time for Alex Warner's provides his customary half-year report on UK public transport 👍👎 ➡️ tinyurl.com/2h5rtzdm

COMMENT 🗣️ | Taking the brakes off mass transit - Bridget Rosewell, Chair of the Mass Transit Taskforce, on speeding up the delivery of projects 🚊🇬🇧 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mtxrnvxn

NEWS 📰 | Buses must form the backbone of the new Welsh Government’s actions on transport, deputy transport minister Mark Hooper said as he launched 30 new TrawsCymru buses last week. 🚍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ➡️ tinyurl.com/ywru5pf5

NEWS 📰 | Andy Burnham has said he would reinstate the cancelled Birmingham-Manchester section of HS2 if he became prime minister, outlining a Crossrail-style funding model 🚆🏗️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/ywt8m8cx

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FUTURE OF TRAVEL 🤖 | "How do we enable simple, seamless travel for everyone, everywhere?” - Steve Broadley says FAIRTIQ is looking forward to working with UK partners to deliver digital pay-as-you-go tech 🚍🚆📲 ➡️ tinyurl.com/5bb3rpwa

COMMENT 🗣️ | Partnership marketing: The missing link in growing bus use - Robin Pointon of GO Travel Solutions says the ‘Buses for You’ campaign in West Northamptonshire shows the need to look beyond transport 🚍🎭⚽️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/5ymp6483

COMMENT 🗣️ | People are rail’s missing ingredient - Alex Warner writes: "In its fixation with technology, the railway has forgotten the role of people in making the difference." 🚆🫥 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4hfreu9a

NEWS 📰 | Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has warned that half of its bus network is at risk. Escalating fuel costs and wider operating pressures have prompted bus operator to seek extended support to maintain services ahead of franchising 🚍🆘 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yucn8ta8

NEWS 📰 | Andy Burnham has advised mayors to move fast on buses: "I do say to them, just get on the path and get on it as quick as you can. And yeah, there’s some up-front cost in terms of the transition, but just swallow it and get on with it." 🚍🐝 ➡️ tinyurl.com/26h68c9b

NEWS 📰 | "We saw our first Bullet Train as we came up the escalator ... It is the train you have always wanted to catch but have never been able to. The trains are quite beautiful – I cried!" - Anthony Smith reflects on his recent trip to Japan 🇯🇵🚅 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mmhp9e3e

COMMENT 🗣️ | Transport reacts to a challenging world. Giles Bailey reports on the International Transport Forum (ITF) conference, where 1,200 delegates and 40 ministers of transport gathered this year 🚍🚆🚗🌍 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4f48789v