| Comment | Quite a few measures in the works to improve the bus services in the city.
Five major arterial roads are earmarked for bus rapid transit infrastructure, or at least something quite close to it, over the next five years or so. Each of these roads serve a half dozen different bus lines each, so this should dramatically improve the speed and reliability of bus journeys from the outskirts of the city to the centre.
The council is looking into setting up a franchise system for buses, like how TfL runs its buses, and how Greater Manchester is just now adopting. That took seven years for Manchester to achieve from early concept stage proposals and funding rounds through to actual launch, and is the sort of time scale that's being talked about here.
As I say though, there are shorter term fixes coming, like the bus priority arterial corridors, and integrated multi-operator ticketing (which is meant to go live in a year or two). |
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