Category: Buses
Bristol buses – what next?
From April 2020 WECA will take over responsibility for overseeing bus services across Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) and South Gloucestershire. This includes powers to introduce bus franchising. What are the likely implications? This article was prepared before measures to control the Coronavirus pandemic were put in place. Franchising Under a franchising system,…
MetroBus: a waste of money?
James Freeman, MD of First West of England, has stated in an open letter that MetroBus may have been a waste of money because traffic congestion stops his buses getting through. Cheap alternative to trams Bristol has been crying out for a rail-based rapid transit system for decades. Various schemes have been proposed, but all…