(13 Jun 2025, 3:23 pm)citaro5284 wrote https://www.passengertransport.co.uk/202...ectations/

Bit of an odd article. It's clearly written as an opinion piece, but nobody at Passenger Transport appears to want to put their name to it.

It's taken a comment about lack of knowledge and expertise, and needing to use best practice from London and Manchester for other City Regions (which I think is fair), but then conflates that with a completely unrelated comment from the CPT Cymru director, suggesting that public expectation is being set too high. Leading them to come up with their headline.

I'm always a bit sceptical when organisations like the CPT comment, especially when it's not made clear that their role is as a lobbying group for private bus operators. Franchising or public ownership is not in their bus manifesto, they'd very much prefer a blank cheque to do what they want with.

I don't even think it's correct to suggest that public expectation is too high. Let's face it, it couldn't be any lower, especially in our region. Even a reliable service would get folk excited!