Proposals announced today by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will see bus fares capped at £2 per journey across Englands.
Mr Shapps wants the cap to come into force this autumn and run for 12 months.
This move would see Swindonians travelling on Swindon Bus Company services through two or more zones save £1 per journey and anyone taking a Stagecoach service from the Town Centre to the Great Western Hospital would save 40p per trip.
Setting out his plan in an article in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Shapps wrote: “I propose that we set a £2 fare cap for every bus journey in England outside London this autumn, lasting 12 months.
“This would inject some certainty into an unpredictable economic landscape, a spending roof that, unlike energy bills, cannot be breached.
“A simple measure that provides some much-needed reassurance deep into 2023.
“Too expensive? Well, a one-year cap would cost the taxpayer about £260 million, a sum far below those being suggested to soften coming energy price hikes.”
The cap is not likely to be introduced as Government policy until the successor to Boris Johnson has been appointed.
