The problem is that there is no onward travel infrastructure worth talking about to give car drivers the incentive and faith to leave their cars at home.
You may get a bus from your edge of town estate or even your village albeit at minimal times, if guaranteed to run, but you then need to get across town.
Not easy and certainly not guaranteed, again.
We used to have a reliable bus service, until Thatcher decided there should be 'competition' in the public transport service. That worked well, didn't it?
There used to be a bus taking onward travellers ready at the rail station, now, no bus at all because privately owned companies found no money in it.
The publicly owned service on that route was a lost leader but made the money up because more people trusted the buses to deliver a service in the round, to get them to their chosen destination.
Kicking the can down the road again.
What else would we expect from our leaders.
NBC brought the buses from outside a built up area (Lady's Lane/Greyfriars) to Sheep Street, a built up area.
Bus lane that haven't forced car drivers off the roads but will have them sitting in queues on tick over for long periods of time at rush hour.
I rest my case.
The point is that they sit in a traffic queue watching buses in the bus lane whizz past and think "I'd be there by now if I'd taken the bus".
The problem is that there is no onward travel infrastructure worth talking about to give car drivers the incentive and faith to leave their cars at home.
You may get a bus from your edge of town estate or even your village albeit at minimal times, if guaranteed to run, but you then need to get across town.
Not easy and certainly not guaranteed, again.
We used to have a reliable bus service, until Thatcher decided there should be 'competition' in the public transport service. That worked well, didn't it?
There used to be a bus taking onward travellers ready at the rail station, now, no bus at all because privately owned companies found no money in it.
The publicly owned service on that route was a lost leader but made the money up because more people trusted the buses to deliver a service in the round, to get them to their chosen destination.
Shocking that the council seriously defends it's inaction by not having anyone in post to do the work.
Will they do this indefinitely?
I rang somebody yesterday who I thought was still in position at WNC to discuss a local government issue to find they had moved on.
When I asked why they told me about the frustrating inefficiency and pressure and interference from certain councillors.
They wanted to complain whilst in the WNC but were advised it wouldn't be good for their job prospects.
Now, with that atmosphere, who are you going to get to work there?