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Originally Posted by Maggy J
I think his point in highlighting certain non Brexit issues is to underline how useless the present government are at sorting out those issues..Transport being the most visibly failing one.
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Well, Brexit was bound to take up a considerable amount of Parliamentary time and energy.
However, I completely agree that something needs to be done about the buses. When you look at the amount of time, energy and money going into the railways, it is very disappointing that the buses have been left to wither on the vine.
Personally, I think the best way to resolve this is for local authorities to be given the task of drawing up a public transport co-ordination system with model timetables and then tender out the services needed to make it work. Tenderers would have the flexibility to suggest changes to the models to make services work better and those routes that failed to get bids would be subsidised by the appropriate local authority.
I think also, there needs to be a national subsidy to reduce bus fares, which are currently at too high a level to encourage people to use buses. At the moment, it is cheaper and less time consuming to go by car.
This will sound too much like a socialist system for many Conservatives, but I think this is the best way of making the system far better. It is not acceptable to allow bus services to be reduced as they have, and if we do nothing, services will ultimately be available only in urban areas.
A much better bus network with more frequent services will reduce congestion and pollution, which are two tick boxes that would be a feather in any Government's hat.