Well done Steve Rotheram. This needs to happen all across the North and cities pretty much elsewhere.
That’s really interesting.
I think that people forget just how important public transport is. As I’ve commented elsewhere, car dependency = isolation for anyone who can’t drive; children, the elderly, the disabled the poor and the intoxicated.
In London 6,000,000 bus journeys are made everyday – at least before the pandemic – and we still have issues with pollution, noise, congestion and car related fatalities. Any improvement to public transport can only be a net positive
I hope if this comes to fruition bus fares actually drop
Getting sick of bus fares rocketing when the service isn’t very reliable. Would also be nice for the money I spend on buses staying in the area instead of being used to subsidise Germany’s public transport
Not all of ‘outside London’ is the North, public transport in the south is fucking awful too.
> Eighty-two percent of all public transport journeys in my region are taken by bus—that’s nearly 400,000 journeys every day. But it would be a mistake to assume that this is a statistic borne solely out of personal preference.
Isn’t that a statistic borne more from the fact that buses are by far the predominantly available form of public transport?
Liverpool hasn’t had trams in over half a century, and trains are never going to be as predominant for local transport.
Was at Liverpool Uni in the mid 90’s.
At that time I remember the bus companies bolting shut the centre doors as the scallies were using them for free entrance!
Was always impressed by the bus services though, they were reliable and efficient, back then even I never saw many cars in the centre though.
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Well done Steve Rotheram. This needs to happen all across the North and cities pretty much elsewhere.
That’s really interesting.
I think that people forget just how important public transport is. As I’ve commented elsewhere, car dependency = isolation for anyone who can’t drive; children, the elderly, the disabled the poor and the intoxicated.
In London 6,000,000 bus journeys are made everyday – at least before the pandemic – and we still have issues with pollution, noise, congestion and car related fatalities. Any improvement to public transport can only be a net positive
I hope if this comes to fruition bus fares actually drop
Getting sick of bus fares rocketing when the service isn’t very reliable. Would also be nice for the money I spend on buses staying in the area instead of being used to subsidise Germany’s public transport
Not all of ‘outside London’ is the North, public transport in the south is fucking awful too.
> Eighty-two percent of all public transport journeys in my region are taken by bus—that’s nearly 400,000 journeys every day. But it would be a mistake to assume that this is a statistic borne solely out of personal preference.
Isn’t that a statistic borne more from the fact that buses are by far the predominantly available form of public transport?
Liverpool hasn’t had trams in over half a century, and trains are never going to be as predominant for local transport.
Was at Liverpool Uni in the mid 90’s.
At that time I remember the bus companies bolting shut the centre doors as the scallies were using them for free entrance!
Was always impressed by the bus services though, they were reliable and efficient, back then even I never saw many cars in the centre though.