Yet another Home Counties bus battle

Tuesday 7th July 2026 It’s yet another Tuesday tale of competition between bus companies in the Home Counties. While Thames Valley and Carousel have dampened down their skirmishes with tactical withdrawals in Berkshire, the battle for the High Wycombe and Slough to Uxbridge corridors between Carousel and First Bus continues and over in neighbouring Bedfordshire a new outbreak of hostilities has just begun. I recently covered the battle between Red Rose and Arriva for the corridor between Aylesbury and Buckingham and a few months ago highlighted wasted duplication in Luton and Dunstable between Arriva and Grant Palmer with both companies chasing each other on the roads between the town centre and Linmere and Thorn, but yet more competition began in this area from the end of May when Arriva expanded its network to take on Centrebus starting a new head to head battle for the Marsh Farm residential area in north Luton. As part of a significant change round of routes from 31st May,…