Wonkhe SUs · The 2026 webinar box set
Bonus: Students and buses
Why public transport – and buses in particular – keeps coming up for SUs, and what can be done about it. (Recorded in a previous year.)
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What we cover
- Why buses keep coming up: overcrowding, cancellations and unfair treatment
- Why lobbying bus companies and petitions rarely deliver lasting change
- The history of bus deregulation and today's market of five operators
- Traffic commissioners' powers over punctuality and passenger compensation
- Consumer Rights Act travel amendments and how students can claim losses
- Recruiting students as bus drivers to tackle the labour shortage
Things to read
- Students need a better deal on public transport
- How to make a difference for students on public transport
- Here's how to respond to the Department for Transport's Integrated National Transport Strategy
- Building a public transport agenda for commuter students
- Students making changes on transport
- Westminster forgets that buses go to universities
- Commuter students, through the lens of transport studies
- How to develop a student urban advocacy agenda
- Commuter students on Wonkhe – tag archive