Save the money for FFPT.
Use the savings to cut fares and improve services DIRECTLY by filling the bus operators teeth with gold.
Financial inducements DIRECTLY to get them to do what we want.
Full local and regional council control in the 1950s completely destroyed the first tram network and, in the following decades, obliterated much of Beeching's very properly CLOSED, LOSS MAKING LINES, as we all rushed out to buy cars.
Local and regional councils are poor/hopeless at commercial enterprises/investments. Look at Dudley's ghastly commercial LOSSES!
Leave it to the private sector to take the substantial financial risks that comes with bus franchising.
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