The Tories have cut thousands of local bus services.
Bus services that get people to work, patients to their hospital appointments and children to school. And they are vanishing under the Tories, affecting communities across Britain.
That’s why the next Labour government will help communities take back control of their buses by:
- Empowering local transport authorities and reforming funding, giving local leaders the control over bus funding they need to deliver their local transport priorities.
- Allowing communities to take back control of buses by removing barriers that limit the bus franchising powers of metro mayors.
- Accelerating the bus franchising process, by supporting local leaders to deliver better buses, faster.
- Stepping in to protect local bus networks and holding bus operators accountable.
- Supporting public ownership of bus networks.
Labour’s plan could create and save up to 1,300 bus routes and 250 million more bus journeys per year.
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