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Quarterly bus statistics: January to March 2020

Quarterly statistics on local bus passenger journeys and fares in Great Britain.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 17 June 2020

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Quarterly bus statistics: January to March 2020 report

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Details

Statistics on the number of local bus:

• passenger journeys
• fares

in Great Britain.

For the year ending March 2020, the number of local bus passenger journeys in:

• England was 4.13 billion, a 4.3% decrease
• London decreased by 4.9%
• England outside London decreased by 3.8%

When comparing local bus passenger journeys for January to March 2020 to January to March 2019, we see:

• a 12.9% decrease in England
• London decreased by 13.5%
• England outside London decreased by 12.2%
• Scotland decreased by 13.1%
• Wales decreased by 15.7%

The local bus fares index increased by 2.5% in England between March 2019 and March 2020.

For other areas, the local bus fares index change was a:

• 0.4% increase in London
• 3.4% increase in metropolitan areas
• 4.1% increase in non-metropolitan areas
• 3.5% in Scotland
• 2.6% in Wales

The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) increased by 1.5% between March 2019 and March 2020.

The period covered by this release includes time after movement restrictions due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) were announced in March. The collection of passenger data is not granular enough to distinguish numbers of passenger journeys before and after the restrictions were announced. An indication of changes in bus passenger volume during this period can be found in the separate weekly release covering transport use during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Published 17 June 2020