Buses get Priority

Travel West Midlands has recruited an extra resource to focus efforts on implementing bus priority measures in the region. Keith Homer, aged 35, joins the Company as Planning Manager from consultants, Faber Maunsell, and has been seconded to work as part of a Central Implementation Team based at Centro.Steve Jasper, Travel West Midlands’ Service Standards Director, said: "As far as I am aware this is the only example of a bus company providing a resource of this nature to look specifically, as part of a strategic team, for areas where we can substantially improve bus priorities. We look forward to assisting local councils in the planning and delivery of public transport priority measures." Peter Adams, Assistant Director Implementation at Centro, said: "The Central Implementation Team is playing a vital role in helping the West Midlands Local Transport Plan partnership to deliver on one of its top priorities; to provide real improvements in bus journey times and reliability through highway measures to allow buses greater priority. This is a great example of partnership working between the bus industry and the public sector to deliver enhanced bus priorities, for the benefit of all operators, faster than would otherwise have been possible."

Published 19th February 2003