People playing loud music on buses could face £100 fine
Local authorities can fine bus passengers up to £100, while a rail campaign urges headphone use and says offenders could face penalties up to £1,000.
- On Monday, the Department for Transport published guidance enabling local authorities to enforce new bus rules with fixed penalty fines of up to £100 for littering, vaping, and playing loud music.
- Local authorities gained powers to set bus network rules earlier this year, which Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said "can make a massive difference to people's experience on public transport."
- Enforcement will rely on Transport Safety Officers and police rather than bus drivers, though Liberal Democrat Transport spokesperson Olly Glover MP warned that without government funding, "these new rules won't be worth the paper they're printed on."
- Simultaneously, Prime Minister Andy Burnham launched a national rail campaign on Monday urging passengers to "share the journey, not the noise" as part of a wider crackdown on antisocial behavior.
- Unite general secretary Sharon Graham warned the measures were "well meaning" but "wholly inadequate" to address the "avalanche of escalating abuse" faced by transport workers, calling for greater protection.
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Bus passengers who vape, drop litter or play loud music could face fines of up to £100 under new guidance issued by the government. The Department for Transport has launched a campaign urging rail passengers to “share the carriage, not the noise”, aimed at people playing music or videos aloud on trains, known as “loudcasting”. […]
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