(16 Oct 2025, 3:04 pm)DodgepotMcDougal wrote All Operators/modes are going to need to do something. You can't dump up thousands of people a day in to the transport network without it breaking.

Metro is at capacity without significant investment. I'm not sure where the additional DMU trains are for Northern. The short and medium solution has to be bus. Be that enhanced frequencies, Park and Ride. Express buses or a mix of all three.

Local authorities will have to step up as well - I just hope the "active" travel merchants that riddle these organisations are shot in to the sun with regards this issue. The last thing needed is even further reduced road space for mass people movers (buses) on the approaches to the city. I know three people that are going to be moving in, and they ain't getting on a bike!

Absolutely agreed that buses are the easiest solution to this, both short term and likely longer term too. 

I feel like better bus prioritisation is one of the easiest, and cheapest, ways to improve current bus services and open up corridors to extra services. Traffic light priority (even a change of sequences would do), extended bus lanes, and even creation of BRT lanes would all help and would be cheap solutions in comparison to Metro extensions etc. 

I also think, generally, there needs to be a shift of mind from people to be more open to using the bus. My bus to work gets delayed almost constantly by 10-15 minutes Monday to Thursday, yet on a Friday where evidently people are WFH/non-working it sails through and gets to destination early. The bus takes 30+ people every day, yet all of those people are delayed because of cars containing 1 person. The route is well connected to other buses/Metro, starts next to a car park with a minimal fee, and serves two huge employment sites (with another at the end I get on).