(16 Oct 2022, 3:04 pm)cbma06 wrote You can’t force the bus company to use a bus station, don’t forget from Dereg bus operators can run where there like [emoji23]You can do a whole lot of things under current legislation. It's a far cry from the 87 Act.
The nuclear option being, if Stagecoach refuses to even consider the merits of getting free access to the publicly provided station as long as they run the agreed services, to offer voters a stark choice - a new bus station with a franchised bus operator, or the status quo.
(16 Oct 2022, 3:04 pm)cbma06 wrote Is this thread started because the council are pedestrianising Blackett street?Yes.....
The council said it would now “work with bus operators and other stakeholders” on revised plans, potentially including a new bus station in the city, but would “still be prepared to go to public inquiry in the future”.
(16 Oct 2022, 3:04 pm)cbma06 wrote You should run for the next PM, you would do good forcing bus companies to use bus stations [emoji106][emoji848]It worked for Boris.
Stagecoach Manchester didn't want to do what Andy Burnham wanted them to do, citing their freedoms as a commercial operator, so he has used the powers given to him by Boris and his whopping majority to fuck them off out of the city entirely.