Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising

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RE: Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising

(27/06/2023 19:57)1466 Wrote:  If it was down to me I would eliminate the private operators all together, every pound stuffed in a back pocket of a shareholder is one that could be spent to support a bus service.
Franchising will allow public transport to be planned as a network, with busy routes cross subsidising less busy ones, it can’t come soon enough.

That still wouldn't improve matters in the slightest. As I said earlier, the problems the city region has with its bus services are not down to the private operators, but sub standard local authorities. Nothing is going to improve while the latter is a problem, whether the buses are operated by the private sector, franchised or municipal.

Merseytravel's network of tendered services aren't particularly well organised and every single "review" has been an utter farce, so I don't see how them running an entire network would be any better.