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
Road protest in the United Kingdom response to the claimed 200 new road-building proposals in the government's recently unveiled 10-year transport plan. They delivered a letter and a D Lock as a symbol of the past protests. Rebecca Lush founded "Road Block" to support a growing number of protests around the country in 2005 which became part of the bus and rail advocacy group Campaign for Better Transport (UK) in 2007. Lush the cosmetics company started to publicly support transport related and other protest groups, introduced the 'Charity Pot' to support small campaign groups, such as NoM1Widening and introduced a product line called 'Go Green', that