£100 for your speakers. £0 for the worker's black eye.
Government launches a glossy 'share the carriage, not the noise' campaign and a £100 bus fine — while the Unite general secretary publicly calls the same package 'wholly inadequate' to address the daily violence bus workers actually face.
Source article: UK to fine bus passengers £100 for loud music and vaping.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- politics, transport
- Primary entities
- Andy Burnham, Sadiq Khan, Sharon Graham, Unite, YouGov, Liberal Democrats, Bus Services Act
- Themes
- Public transport policy, Nuisance behaviour enforcement, UK domestic politics
- Floor values engaged
- Accountability of power, Equality & fairness