| Comment | In Andy Burnham they have a mayor who's an incredible advocate for better transport for the city region. Not to completely discredit him, but (and I hate to say this) most of the change has come because of actions made by the UK government. They established mayoral regions in England, changed legislation to allow Manchester and other English cities to control their bus networks (repealing aspects of transport laws their party enacted in the 80s) and are responsible for the fare cap too, which is a national scheme across all of England funded by central govt.
We've done only part of this work in Scotland. On law changes on transport powers for cities: this is mostly though not completely finished with secondary legislation still to be passed. On national funding: fare capping may well be coming somewhere down the line later this year or early 2024, but there seems to be zero appetite to take on funding of a municipally owned transit system for Glasgow, even if it will soon have the legal authority to do it. |
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