(10 hours ago)Economic505 wrote The Devolution bill going through Parliament will give the metro Mayors greater control over local rail. It’s not that Nexus neglects local rail- it’s out of their hands. London is well integrated because TfL have absolute control. London also was spared the failed experiment of Bus Deregulation.

To be fair I'm not sure Nexus actually needs to do anything with the rail itself. 

Beyond that West Yorkshire already have integration on rail fares with buses etc, technically we do with Network One aswell and also branding at the stations. 

Don't see any reason why the Nexus R symbol with them shown on the Metro map couldn't be done tomorrow? They just choose not to. In fact I'm sure Nexus subsidises the short MetroCentre services on a Sunday aswell - unless it's changed in recent years. 

Obviously going further would be nice but don't see why Nexus would need to run the trains to be able to do it.