RE: Greater Manchester Combined Authority15 Mar 2021 10:00
when the bus companies running the services don't want the scheme, the tender prices will go up, or they will not want the business because it will produce an inefficient business model, first's comments say it all to be in the first few lines, typical council inefficiencies and bureaucratic money wasting..... wonder how much this report cost?
" First strongly opposed franchising. In its view the first £100m will all go on
administration delivering nothing to the public and franchising would deliver an
ongoing decline in bus patronage, guaranteed fare increases, no material
improvement in the bus fleet, no guaranteed network enhancements, be costly
to taxpayers exposing them to be risk and be a distraction from, and delay,
addressing the basic problem – resolving congestion "
that i would call an epic failure if the comments turn out to be accurate