Coach transport in the United Kingdom 2% in the previous year. In 2009 FirstGroup entered the market with Greyhound UK, competing with National Express and Megabus. The Birmingham Coach Station opened after a major rebuild. Reconstruction of the Milton Keynes Coachway started (opening Spring 2010). In September 2010 FirstGroup announced it would be expanding the Greyhound UK service significantly. In October 2010, Philip Hammond, the transport minister, announced that the M4 bus lane would be scrapped, saying: "Nothing is more symbolic of Labour's war on the motorist". The Confederation of Passenger Transport said that the decision, which was supported by all the main motoring organisations, had
Campaign for Better Transport (United Kingdom) Joseph is Chief Executive Officer. "Transport 2000" was formed in 1972, and officially launched on 6 February 1973, by various railway workers' unions and environmental pressure groups as a reaction to a newspaper disclosure that one of the options in a report for the Department of the Environment was the possible closure of a large part of the rail network. The National Union of Railwaymen instigated a meeting with other concerned parties where they agreed to form "Transport 2000" with 14 affiliated organisations, many of which are still associated with the organisation. Michael Palin was appointed as chairman in 1986