Who are the policymakers? Politicians or regulators?

摘要

In a democracy, politicians must surely determine broad public transport policy. Like them or loathe them, vote for them or against them, they are the people -some broadly of the political left, others of the right - who have shaped the big changes in British bus legislation over the past 80 years.rnThey gave the railways powers to buy shareholdings in regional companies and organise them into territories that they dominated. They created the 1930 Road Traffic Act that, among many things, introduced national road service licensing. They created London Transport, nationalised the railways and many territorial bus companies, created and broke up the British Transport Commission, brought us passenger transport executives and 20 years later deregulation and privatisation.