{"id":308466,"date":"2025-08-01T05:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308466\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:42:10","slug":"west-midlands-bus-rail-and-metro-offer-less-value-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308466\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands bus, rail and metro offer &#8216;less value for money&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other figures revealed the number of bus boardings had dropped by 3.49m year-on-year, while metro usage fell by 220,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But rail usage increased by 1.36m in the same period. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report also said that services were more reliable, with 79% of bus services, 84.9% of rail services and 93% of metro services being on time in the final quarter of 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This news was gathered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, which covers councils and other public service organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other figures revealed the number of bus boardings had dropped by 3.49m year-on-year, while metro usage fell by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-308466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}