Manchester bus franchising

[Barney]

RE: Manchester bus franchising

(03/02/2023 12:04)Mayneway Wrote:  I think you need to open your eyes and read a little of the documentation in the public domain. We will loose more services as franchising rolls in and gain nothing.
We are 8 months away from the first phase and the main operator in that area has announced the withdrawal of one major route and the reduction in frequency of others.
Vision who loose the majority of their business in September have also withdrawn a commercial service.

Painting the buses yellow won’t solve the issues we have currently. If you had the slightest experience of TFGM’s planning dept you’d know this but hey what do I know.

My understanding is that the first tranche of franchises will initially replicate what exists right now under the deregulated system and there will not be any change to the bus network until the whole process is completed in 2025. After that date, TfGM will then begin to create a network that it wants and believes to be most beneficial to its populous.

As for the withdrawal of services in the lead-up to September 2023, these are commercial decisions made by the current operators and TfGM has little say in what they choose to do.

Those of us with long memories will remember that in the lead-up to deregulation in 1986, the PTEs did exactly the same in the knowledge that the new commercial operators were unwilling to run them without a subsidy from the local authority.