{"id":699796,"date":"2026-07-19T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699796\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:37:10","slug":"oxford-bus-group-rebrands-to-go-thames-valley-to-reflect-network-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699796\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Bus Group rebrands to Go Thames Valley to reflect network expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bus group has been renamed in preparation for the pending local government reorganisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Oxford Bus Group is now part of Go Thames Valley, and has a network spanning Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move comes ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg0d7denvyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the local government reorganisation<\/a>, which scraps the existing two-tier system and will see three unitary authorities take care of everything in Oxfordshire and a part of Berkshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Luke Marion, managing director of Go Thames Valley, said the new name ensured they were &#8220;more relevant to the communities we serve&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bus group has been renamed in preparation for the pending local government reorganisation. Oxford Bus Group is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-699796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}