NATIONAL TRANSPORT AWARDS 🏆 | The @TransportTimes National Transport Awards took place on October 2 in London. You can read all about the winners in this official Souvenir Brochure, the National Transport Awards Book of Winners 2025 #UKNTAs25 ⭐️🎉🍾 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4vk6zjjc

FUTURE OF BUS 🚍 | Keeping First’s people moving - How First Bus is supporting workforce wellbeing with @SimplyhealthUK and is reaping the rewards 🏥🩺❤️‍🩹 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mwcnescc

FUTURE OF BUS 🚍 | @velociti_solns evolves operations platform - Solutions specialist is reimagining scheduling and operations with a new platform built from the ground up and shaped by the industry #EuroBusExpo 💻👀 ➡️ tinyurl.com/53xsvbne

FUTURE OF BUS 🚍 | The old order meets the new - Established manufacturers face growing competition from ambitious overseas newcomers #EuroBusExpo 🚌👀 ➡️ tinyurl.com/fpzme4jy

COMMENT 🗣️ | Retention is the new recruitment - @NinaLockwood explains why bringing more women into the fold is a huge achievement, but a door that people walk straight back out of isn’t much of a victory 🚍♀️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/5748snuv

COMMENT 🗣️ | Fen Line fiasco raises big questions - Hundreds of cancellations have hit confidence in the Fen Line. @AlexWarner5 says restoring reliability will take more than a change of ownership 🚆😩 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3adc6nuv

COMMENT 🗣️ | Deeper devolution can deliver more - Richard McGuckin, chair of @UTG_UK, writes: "If we deepen devolution further, the prize could be even bigger: better transport connectivity, more homes and stronger local economies" 🚍🚆 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4ae4trnf

NEWS 📰 | CPT Scotland calls for urgent meeting with Swinney - First Minister used the SNP Conference to announce expansion of the £2 fare cap and plans to bring buses under public control by 2031 🚍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yztut5t5

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NATIONAL TRANSPORT AWARDS 🏆 | The @TransportTimes National Transport Awards took place on October 1 in London. You can read all about the winners in this official Souvenir Brochure, the National Transport Awards Book of Winners 2026 #UKNTAs26 ⭐️🎉🍾 ➡️ tinyurl.com/y2dmm9jx

COMMENT 🗣️ | High street revival needs better buses - A successful high street requires people. People require reasons to visit, but they also require a practical way of getting there - writes @AlexWarner5 🚍🛍️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/244r7fnt

COMMENT 🗣️ | Why oppose this modest experiment? Peter Robinson explains why Transport for London should be running its own buses and the industry should get on board and treat this as an opportunity 🚍 ➡️ tinyurl.com/42r56shv

LEADERSHIP STORIES 📖 | "My door is always open, literally" - Caroline Wilson (@MrsRecruiter75), MD and founder at The Recruitment Story, meets Godfrey Mawoyo, operations director at @reading_buses 👋 ➡️ tinyurl.com/mwakwj6v

FUTURE OF RAIL 🚆 | "They want to come in, help you, introduce you and give you opportunities" - Mike Hughes talks to @richardsalkeld, of Newcastle-based Lumo, about how the operator is supporting local communities 🤝 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4kpuy6sc

FEATURE 📰 | When Walls Speak Welcome - How @Translink_NI, children and artists collaborated to create bold public art that welcomes everyone 🚆🎨👀 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4zrfnmjd

NEWS 📰 | ‘Poor bus links have held back high streets’ - Research from bus operator Metroline shows that half of public transport users are being pushed to shop online only because poor connectivity 🚍🛍️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/mr2e3yh2

PEOPLE 🤝 | Transport offers ‘huge’ career opportunities. Arriva London’s Philip Gerhardt has urged people to consider careers across transport, highlighting routes from driving and graduate schemes #LunchWithLeon 🚍👀 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yrevvnrb

COMMENT 🗣️ | Celebrate the end of Chiltern? No thanks - As Chiltern passes into public ownership, @AlexWarner5 says its entrepreneurial culture, local focus and appetite for innovation must be preserved 🚆 ➡️ tinyurl.com/ejybnytf

COMMENT 🗣️ | Buses are box office under Burnham - Jonathan Bray says the new PM sees buses as a fast and visible way to ease living costs, empower communities and show that government works 🚍🤩 ➡️ tinyurl.com/yzkfajcn

INNOVATION & TECH 🤖 | Ticket retailing for a changing railway. Magellan will supply over 200 ticket vending machines to Southeastern. Johnny Astbury explains how self-service ticket retailing is evolving 🚆🎟️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdzs6v2s

NEWS 📰 | ‘Scotland’s £2 bus fare cap must be affordable’. Cabinet secretary Stephen Flynn told last week’s CPT Scotland Conference national roll-out of fare cap will require constructive partnership working 🚍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ➡️ tinyurl.com/2zus7nmu