Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising

[lcm453]

RE: Liverpool City Region Bus Franchising
Bus franchising for LCR isn't about turning back the clock. Even the current government has realised that privatisation of bus services isn't working otherwise they would not have changed their approach to this. Many of the views expressed on this forum have some valid points but don't forget another reason for doing this is to reduce pollution as well as reliance on cars. Whether or not this works will depend on subsidy from the government to improve services in terms of cost to the fare-paying passenger, safety of the network and reliability. If successful the amount of subsidy required will decrease over time. Let's hope that the Metropolitan Authorities adopting franchising get it right.