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Road Transport Blog

6 th Sep

Compromise settles Preston sell-off saga

Stagecoach and the Competition Commission have reached a compromise that obliges Stagecoach to sell Preston Bus, but keep one of the routes in the original divestment package. The high-frequency 11 between the city centre and Gamull Lane via Ribbleton Lane, one of the first launched in competition with then employee-owned Preston Bus in 2007, [...]

Author Focus: Glyn Kraemer Johnson

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I was born in Dartford, Kent in 1941, moving to Brighton in 1946. I attended Varndean Grammar School after which I started work with Southdown Motor Services Ltd. As a management trainee. Personal circumstances made it necessary for me to make a change of career direction and the rest of my working life was spent in Financer. This did include spell ...
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