(Yesterday, 7:47 pm)Adrian wrote Where's your awareness of their staffing levels coming from? They've a whole department within the transport portfolio at NECA that are responsible for Bus Reform, who reports to the Assistant Director of Transport Strategy at the authority, and they've been actively recruiting into that team since 2024.

If you add to this that the July 2024 minutes included approval of an £8.5m budget across three financial years for the development of the FSA, including staffing and consultancy services, so I'd be really interested to know where you're getting that they have 'no staff to do it' from?

The draft FSA (which is already written) will have to include details of services that are included, so again, I'm not sure where you're getting that they won't have looked at the network from?

Can't imagine there being many staff on the team which have experience on planning routes and timetables on bus networks, if any (hence the no staff, rather than overall). It makes no sense having them as they're role belongs in Nexus doing the tendered work etc and I'm sure they'll talk to the relevant areas if they need some assistance here or there.

You've already said they're doing the plans based on the network in 2024, that's as far as they'll be going right now. It makes zero sense to be planning they need buses from Team Valley to the Metrocentre or whatever.