LCR Bus Franchising

[Mayneway]

RE: LCR Bus Franchising

(28/02/2022 12:25)Barney Wrote:  I agree that traffic congestion has got a lot worse and that a long-term, multi-layered approach is needed including a CAZ. Currently, all public transport works independently of each other and what seems to be a deliberate policy of not co-ordinating buses with the Merseyrail network is extremely frustrating for me.

By your own admission, traffic congestion in major conurbations - and all its associated consequences - is now at its worst in living memory. Improving the road network, surfaces and infrastructure will have very little effect in mitigating these problems. As you are ideologically opposed to franchising as one way of tackling this elephant in the room, what would you suggest?

Charging hard up motorists another tax won’t solve the problem.
People will do certain ways to avoid badly timed lights or roads with potholes or huge speed bumps.
I can list loads of examples in Manchester but it’s pointless. One of the major roads out of the city centre, chapel street. A two lane road towards Salford. Half way up one of the lanes suddenly becomes a bus lane so this is a bottle neck for congestion. If the bus lane started at the beginning of the road your taking away the cause of congestion, and that’s just one example.