Manchester bus franchising

[Barney]

RE: Manchester bus franchising

(03/02/2023 09:43)KXW212 Wrote:  You can have as many additional routes and better frequencies as you like, but they will still get stuck in the worsening congestion, which Saint Andy is to cowardly to do anything about. There are no bus priorities to accompany the scheme, so nothing will really change, except the buses will be insipid yellow and that doesn't get them through the traffic any quicker.

You are now conflating two issues: franchising and bus priority schemes.

Several years ago, the good people of Manchester voted against congestion charging which would have mitigated against increasing car usage but is now considering a CAZ within the the TfGM area. What do you think of this?

I have read that TfGM has already drawn up plans for extensive bus lanes and other bus priorities as soon as franchising is completed. Will this help change your view?

Regarding the decision by "St Andy" to adopt an "insipid yellow", I can only conclude that you would be amore amenable to the whole franchising debate if any other livery had been chosen which, to me, makes no sense. After all, when Arriva and Stagecoach rebranded their respective corporate images, it didn't make the buses run more efficiently.