Dear Tim,
Thank you for your question on my Facebook Live Q&A and for your follow up email.
I appreciate you taking the time to share your views. We have made improving connectivity through public transport in Bristol a priority, after years of successive administrations failing to deliver the transformation of our transport network that is needed. This includes improving priority for buses, cyclists and pedestrians across our city and bringing forward plans for a sustainable mass transit system that will connect people to people, people to jobs, and people to opportunity.
We do this, however, in a context of limited powers. Since the deregulation of bus services in the 1980s, local authorities do not have powers to compel bus services to reduce fares or to franchise bus services locally. Nevertheless we continue to expand provision to public transport for residents of all ages across the city, and to ensure this is affordable for all.
Kind regards
Marvin Rees
Mayor of Bristol
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