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Higher bus fares – is that part of TfGM’s franchising plan?

Peter Shipp, Chairman and chief executive, EYMS Group Ltd, Hull HU3
04 September 2015
 

It was interesting to read a Transport for Greater Manchester official saying that, in pursuing its interest in bus franchising, the organisation was “keen to look further... into taking more of a direct role in the revenue management of the bus system” (‘Council funding cuts fuel TfGM’s bus franchising investigations’ LTT 21 Aug).

I presume this is PTE-speak for putting up bus fares, as the recent news about the scale of the cuts TfGM has had to make in bus...

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