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“Where have all the buses gone?”
The potential of regional franchising control makes an assumption that central bodies know best.
Too many do not know best or are not currently resourced to the task.
Which, I feel, is part of the reason why so many BSIPs were rejected for funding and even the ones accepted have focus issues. I am familiar with the Norfolk BSIP and there are significant misses on driving economic development through better consideration of mult-modal connectivity and also not closing time-gaps in already running services (where ends of routes are served during parts of the day but then curtailed for much of the evening (save a very late last bus), denying access to amenities by locals and services to incoming tourists. Minor increases in driver hours and peaked vehicle requirement would have made a big different to both issues.
There is very little mention in BSIP generally and articles such of this by experts of a key piece of thinking: Jarret Walker’s “7 requirements of public transit”, which are simple and patently true (application lacking resources is the main challenge to that).
BSIP is Bus Service Improvement Plan.