Not only will the new laws ensure services are protected but it will also lift the ban on local authorities setting up their own bus companies
That should never have been a law in the first place. I guess it was a thatcher thing?
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Another nail in the coffin of Thatcher's policies
The government is already backing local authorities York and North Yorkshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Hertfordshire, Cheshire West and Chester as part of the Bus Franchising Pilots
Would anyone from there like to tell us how it appears to be going, please?
Im from the north east. None of those places. But they have already been doing schemes after covid of £2 rides from the provinces into the likes of Newcastle.
That has actually lapsed now but stuff like this gives me hope that they'll be able take charge and do something like it. There's also been a spate of bus shelter improvements near me also. Im loving the buses.
Though the number scratched into the back of the seat on the double decker I was on did not, in fact, lead to a hot fuck as was advertised.
Odd, Cardiff Bus in Wales has existed for ages (competing with Stagecoach). Maybe this was England only?
In Northern Ireland there is only one bus company (except from some novelty tourbuses) which is Translink who also run the railways. Their service is decent but they only started taking contactless like two or three years ago.
Translink is owned by the Northern Ireland Executive (the devolved government)
No, Cardiff Bus survived after the 1980s deregulation. All that was needed to survive was never to have elected a council that chose to sell it for a quick buck, like most did, in Wales as well as England, or have appointed managers that failed to compete with private operators like Stageroach and Worst.
If they'd sold it or gone bust, Cardiff Council wouldn't have been allowed to start more bus services themselves again.