| Comment | I don't think they did. The council leadership said the right things at the right time (it was just after the new Transport Act Scotland had been passes, and the same week I believe that Get Glasgow Moving submitted 2000 signatures from their petition campaign to get the council to buy the buses) but it was only mildly positive words.
The council has been luke warm and hyper cautious in pursuing further regulation of buses. It took Get Glasgow Moving to pressure enough Labour and other MSPs to force the necessary amendments to the Scottish Government's original transport bill - which did not provide fill powers to councils. It's SNP policy not to encourage full on regulation and municipal ownership, but to limit any changes to franchising (where a single company may be given responsibility for all city buses).
If people want to see real change happen the lesson is that we need a concerted, widespread, and importantly **sustained campaign** to get the transport system we deserve for the city. |
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