| Comment | I know I'm a broken record on this, but there's a danger of people's response to this being generalized (to despair at the situation, complain to First, demand vague action) rather than being extremely specific in what we ask the council and Scottish Govt to do.
The right plan is in place: franchising the bus network as a first step, running it like TfL, TfGM or like ScotRail used to be, by rendering out services but controlling everything. With the option for exploring full municipal ownership further down the line.
The problem isn't necessarily convincing the council to do this. They're already on board and have started progressing a business case towards franchising.
The problem is it's going to be *painfully* slow, unless the Scottish Government can be convinced to speed the process up by treating it as a priority project, with the requisite funding and national backing such a project needs. |
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