Should we Deregulate?

Should be bus industry be deregulated? Yes, I know that it is already. Should it see fewer regulations, then.

Thus far, the few respondents to the government’s recently launched Red Tape Challenge seem to want to see more regulation, not less.

Yesterday, the government added a road transport category to its growing list of activities where it wishes to see fewer regulations. Here is an ideal opportunity for operators and others to suggest how red tape might be cut. Rather than the trivial responses we see to date, might someone consider something more meaty?

The truth is, however, that even though the bus industry is already “deregulated”, we still need regulation. By that I mean basic ground rules. An anarchic free-for-all without any form of constraint at all would be like a game of football without match officials—impossible to manage, deteriorating by the second, and certainly of no worth whatsoever to its spectators.

When the present government was elected, we asked readers for their unnecessary regulations they’d prefer to see scrapped, bus wise. Check them out here

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