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Buses competing for passengers in Stockton-on-Tees in February 1988. Bus deregulation in Great Britain involved the abolition of Road Service Licensing for bus services outside of Greater London. It began in 1980 with long-distance bus services and was extended to local bus services in 1986 under the Transport Act 1985. The abolition of Road ...
Privatisation and bus deregulation came into effect on 26 October 1986. [1] Local authorities were required to transfer their municipally-owned bus services to separate companies. Although most of these companies have since been privatised, with the exception of Lothian Buses in Edinburgh; a few other municipal bus companies remain today.
Of the remaining municipals, post-1986 many were sold off or collapsed during bus deregulation, which required their separation into stand-alone arm's-length companies. Only a handful of municipal operators remain, with some securing their futures with equity partnership deals with private operators.
It introduced deregulation of coach services in the United Kingdom and allow authorities to deregulate bus services on a trial basis. It was introduced by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher. The later Transport Act 1985 imposed bus deregulation of local buses.
The Passenger Transport Executive (PTE) bus operations were the bus operating divisions of the passenger transport executives in the United Kingdom. In 1986 they underwent a process of deregulation and privatisation, forming some of the largest private bus companies in the UK outside London, with all being sold to their employees or management.
London Buses MCW Metrobus at Piccadilly Circus in October 1987. On 29 June 1984, in the general move towards deregulation, responsibility for running London bus services transferred from the last public body running London's buses, the Greater London Council to London Regional Transport under the London Regional Transport Act 1984.
Motor carrier deregulation was a part of a sweeping reduction in price controls, entry controls, and collective vendor price setting in United States transportation, begun in 1970-71 with initiatives in the Richard Nixon Administration, carried out through the Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter Administrations, and continued into the 1980s, collectively seen as a part of deregulation in the United ...
The Bus Regulatory Reform Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97–261, 96 Stat. 1102) was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on September 20, 1982. The law contained provisions considered " deregulatory " of the bus industry, representing the largest legislation of regulatory reform since 1935.