I wholly agree that the city does not give bus the infrastructure it needs, but don’t forget the closure of the bus station was under a Liberal administration.
True. The bus station is being rebuilt though allegedly, the council wanted it to be a case of any bus takes any available stand and then tell passengers which stand it goes from (think like Birmingham Digbeth Coach Station, stand is allocated upon arrival rather than route 1 always departs from stand A (for example). The new bus station is coming along though, I guess time will tell which routes actually serve it. Whether it is an interurban bus station or a Cardiff Bus Bus Station.
Who's decision was it to close St Mary's Street to buses on Fri/Sat nights? A decision which forces buses to avoid the main area where people are and the junctions made into large taxi ranks to push people into taxis rather than the (what was) readily available buses?
Also whos decision was it to make it so that the two sets of lights on St Mary's Street (a road which must have about 60 buses per hour over each junction can take 4 minutes for each green cycle.
Lack of decent bus stops, no effective bus lanes, junctions that give no regard to bus movements are plenty in example and this is the case now for most UK cities.
You'd expect an authority who owns the local bus operator to be better though as they can see the challenges and they will want to prop up the operator with as little of taxpayers money as possible. If they cared about bus priority, they would save money as Cardiff bus would be more profitable.
There are 4 route ps that fall into the category of linking Hospital to suburbs - all tenders and these are the services being withdrawn. The ‘core’ network is what I needs to be.
Tenders are being withdrawn. Wonderful advert for public control that.
Sports Village is busy and an example where s106 support as part of developments, done right works.
Always dead whenever I've passed through there. Nowhere near busy enough to justify the number of buses. I agree S106 funding though is definitely needed to be requested more
Schools is an issue - they are built nowhere near the bus network or even, in some cases, near anything. In those examples bus services will always need to be supported.
Some of the schools aren't that far from the core bus network and could be supported by moving more kids on the core bus network.
Like all major urban areas, the above which hinders bus operations won’t be fixed by what is proposed by WG franchising either.
Shhh, keep that quiet. Labour is doing a big campaign saying that public control is best and it will solve the world's problems.
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