Manchester bus franchising

[Mayneway]

RE: Manchester bus franchising

(05/02/2023 09:14)Barney Wrote:  Once more you are expressing opinions as facts. A franchise system IS a regulated system and it has only come about by a Conservative Government - Labour politicians had no role in this change - that recognised that deregulation hasn't worked.

What would you define as "a hell of a lot of money"?

The recent £2 fare cap wasn't even thought of twelve months ago let alone when the Buses Services Act 2017 was passed that has enabled the franchising process to begin.

Also, need to add "I believe" before your claim "...it will be a mirror image of the tram system with expensive fares".

I am not naïve to believe that everything will be perfect with the new system, especially in the first few years, but it needs to be given time. After all, the deregulated system has had almost forty years to prove itself and most people consider it to have failed in its aims.

Nothing to do with the tories, Andy Burnham has pushed for this and last time I looked he is a labour metro mayor.

He’s also mislead the pubic saying he wants to take away the private companies putting profit before services - newsflash he’s still got to rely on the private companies putting in realistic bids to run the work and the bids have to be profitable otherwise they wouldn’t bother.
He’s also stated he wants a ‘London’ style system, please tell me how much TFL are in debt??