(17 Aug 2022, 10:22 am)Andreos1 wrote Any worse than what we see now? It's going from bad to worse and whilst a devolution deal may be better long term, in the short term, someone needs to get hold of the whole thing and give it urgent life support.
Local/regional control can still happen under a centralised funding model - even before devolution (if it ever happens).
I don't think it'd be any better than what we see now. Centralisation of a local service, as public transport is, just doesn't work in my opinion. It detaches the decision makers from the network.
If there was widespread regulation of buses in England, in my opinion it has to be regionally controlled.