I'd love to know who this re-incarnation of "bus bill" this is aimed at? It's clearly not at the humble car user, rather people who don't already have cars. I'd have thought these are the sort of people who would be using the bus regardless of these initiatives...

There's zero pull factors to convert, and there's surely no push factors from automobile manufacturers the other way. The system needs a full re-envisagement top to bottom.

I'm also struggling to think who is paying for all of this. Sounds like mystical magic money trees again. Are we going to pay by an increase in fare? Or by increase in taxation on top of all of the covid drama. 10 years to late to me. All of this (bar contactless) could have been done before. Buses have had GPS tracking for as long as I can remember, "smartphones" have been popular for at least 15 years. Bus lanes are habitually ignored due to traffic levels and just as it's human nature. People park wherever they want.

It's a sorry state of affairs that is a catch-22 to break.