{"id":261465,"date":"2025-07-13T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261465\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T11:35:28","slug":"south-yorkshire-buses-to-be-brought-back-under-public-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261465\/","title":{"rendered":"South Yorkshire buses to be brought back under public control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as deciding routes, SYMCA will set timetables and fares, with all revenue going to the public body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will also own the buses and depots and make decisions about how money is reinvested in the network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matt Kitchin, Stagecoach managing director, said: &#8220;We are pleased the decision on the future of bus franchising in our region has now been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We look forward to continuing the conversation on what works best for customers locally, bringing our considerable experience and extensive knowledge of running services in franchised regions like London and Greater Manchester.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the consultation, however, TM Travel, who are based in Sheffield said they  feared smaller and medium-sized bus operators could be excluded from the market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Yorkshire was once famous for its publicly-run bus network, with adult fares of 8p and a &#8216;go anywhere&#8217; kids fare of 2p.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That ended in 1986 when the then-government deregulated the bus market outside  London, allowing private companies to compete on bus routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since 2017 metro mayors have been allowed to franchise bus services, with the process recently completed in Greater Manchester, where all buses have been painted a striking yellow and branded &#8220;Bee Network&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as deciding routes, SYMCA will set timetables and fares, with all revenue going to the public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-261465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114845721645315516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}