Bus partnership or Quality Contract? Stakeholders give PTE plenty to ponder

With consultation on its proposed bus Quality Contract Scheme now closed, Nexus has plenty of viewpoints to consider before it makes recommendations to the Integrated Transport Authority in March

Andrew Forster

18 December 2013

Tyneside: pioneering bus Quality Contracts?

Will Tyne and Wear become the first place in the country to introduce a bus Quality Contract Scheme (QCS)? Or will councillors eventually accept the improved offer of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) made by operators? The Labour-controlled Tyne and Wear Integrated Transport Authority this summer authorised consultation on the QCS, at the same time requesting that the PTE continue a dialogue with operators about the VPA alternative (LTT 09 Aug).

Consultation ended last month and...