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busandcoach.com 28 Jun '12, 11am

Bus and Coach News: Coach infrastructure call: More needs to be done to improve infrastructu... #bus #coach #diesel

More needs to be done to improve infrastructure for coaches in European cities, according to Eurolines president John Gilbert, addressing a meeting of passenger industry representatives in Brussels. “Coach is the most flexible, green and affordable transport mode available for European citizens, yet the lack of infrastructure such as interconnected and well located stations holds back its development,” Gilbert says. “This is a wake up call for Europe as coach travel can help reduce personal car use and combined with better access to stations it will encourage intermodal travel”. MEP Brian Simpson, chairman of the transport and tourism committee of the European Parliament, notes: “The European Parliament is very much in favour of intermodality and integrated public transport but regions and cities have also a key role to play in supporting the development of stations that a...

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