Plymouth to review its £382,000 a year subsidy of bus services
Plymouth’s subsidised bus services will come under the spotlight at the Council’s Growth and Prosperity Overview and Scrutiny Panel meeting on 24 October.
A review will begin of the existing provision and criteria for the subsidised services. The Council spends £382,000 a year contracting bus services that would not otherwise be provided by the operators.
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13 services are partly or fully subsidised by the Council. Fully subsidised routes serve the east, west and north of the city and the Council partly subsidises services for evening, Sundays and Bank Holidays.
Options and opportunities for through ticketing in the city will also be considered by the Panel. This allows passengers to buy tickets that are valid with more than one public transport company.
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This initial review will also receive feedback for the discussions from the Council’s Young Person’s Transport Fair and Summit which is being held on 22 October. Subsequent meetings will be scheduled to enable recommendations to be put forward in early 2013.
Councillor Patrick Nicholson, Chair of the Panel said:”I welcome this opportunity to review the subsidised bus services and look at how decisions on subsidies are made, as well as the ticketing opportunities that exist for offering greater choice and flexibility to passengers.”
Comments
by lweston
Saturday, November 10 2012, 11:59AM
“Simple really
If a service or route dont make a profit get rid of it,”
by MissAnthrope
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 11:18PM
“If passengers were allowed to drive the buses wherever they want the bus companies would save a fortune in wages and people would actually get the door to door service they all really want.”
by BOREDOFPLYM1
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 9:18PM
“loose the busses then we all use bus lanes traffic issues all sorted”
by Oncemore4
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 4:53PM
“Its an old fashioned mode of transport that should be put to sleep.
Expensive if not subsidised. Inefficient, pollutes 100s of thousands of Tons of carcenogenic diesel fumes. (CO2/AGW is just a con).
Good Idea to spend £20 million plus on a bus lane though.
Just think of the car parks that money could have built.”
by PLYMFOX01
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 4:00PM
“The fact that Citybus was sold off has nothing to do with subsidisiong bus services. If people arent using the service provided what point is there subsidising a bus that travels around either empty or with one or two people on it.”
by trollolol
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 11:05AM
“Use it or lose it.”
by Nevman
Tuesday, October 23 2012, 11:01AM
“The council wouldn't be facing bus-route blackmail if Cllr Nicholson's party hadn't flogged off CityBus in a desperate attempt to paper over the cracks in their mismanagement of the city's finances.”