LCR Bus Franchising

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RE: LCR Bus Franchising

(05/03/2022 06:28)MPTE1955 Wrote:  It's only to going to cost us the public more money, its ridiculous that its not realised that there are the likes of saveaways etc where people can use each companies buses, And that is without even thinking of the busy qbp routes where you do anyway This will be a mess like everything else, This council can't be trusted to do anything right.
The metro mayor championed the new trains a few months back and took the credit for them, they got delivered 2 years ago and are still sitting doing nothing, pandemic or not, the organisation for those to be in service should long have been done pre-pandemic. Couldn't even do that, so guarantee the buses won't he any better. I have little faith. but we will all pay for this. Plus he has forgotten the huge elephant in the room when basing this on the Tfl model. In that TFLnow have a huge debt.

Covid is a prime example. Private companies like Stagecoach and Arriva absorbed a lot of the costs during the first lockdown yet Metrolink and london had to be massively propped up by government to keep afloat. This is exactly why control should stay with operators not councils.