2025 Action Scorecards

Question · Action Scorecards 2025

Is bus ridership within the council's area high?

Question code
2.8b
Section
Transport
Topic
Buses
Source
National Data
Question weight
Medium

Criteria

Two-tier criteria:
First tier criteria met if bus passenger journeys are over 75 per head of population

Second tier criteria met if bus passenger journeys are over 150 per head of population.

Clarifications

This question is applicable to English transport authorities only.

Where the data is combined at a ITA level - we are scoring all constituent councils as one. For example, all councils within Greater Manchester ITA will be scored according to the Greater Manchester ITA bus ridership figures.

Marked using Department for Transport data (BUS 0110): Passenger journeys on local bus services per head of population by local authority: England - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus01-local-bus-passenger-journeys

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