| Comment | Already replied to your other main comment in this thread, but I've just read this and have further info so I'll reply here too.
The council is planning to emulate exactly what Manchester has done recently, and create a bus franchise. Basically, running the buses in Glasgow like they are with TfL: the city decides all routes, mandates prices, even designs the singular branding for all buses. But the services are tendered out and run (underneath the surface) by private operators, beholden to strict conditions.
It took Manchester seven years, from concept stage to actual launch of the franchise system, so it *could* take that long here. Of course, that covered 2 years of Covid, and it's possible Glasgow could learn from what Manchester has done to shorten this period.
In any case, there is significant work under way to improve the buses in the city, either through new governance models or by redesigning our roads to make bus journeys more efficient and attractive ([the city is planning five major bus rapid transit routes](https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=29726) along main arterial roads in and out of the centre in the coming years). |
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