Kick-starting growth in the Garden

摘要

Deregulation versus re-regulation debates invariably simplify matters to portray the big metropolitan cities outside London as the losers and confine success stories to university cities like Brighton, Cambridge and Oxford.rnYet passenger numbers are growing year on year in other places that do not fit these stereotypes, perhaps none more so than at Stagecoach East Kent, the operator serving the bottom right hand corner of England, which has a track record of growth that should be envied by the biggest cities. Eastern Kent - part of the so-called Garden of England - looks isolated, surrounded by water on three sides. This helps concentrate passenger flows, and with Canterbury at its centre, a spider's web of routes has radiated out to the coastal towns for over 75 years.