tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post1514029024748536919..comments2024-03-25T22:17:35.616+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: Sunday Varietyfatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-63115442435139583512022-02-06T21:32:31.598+00:002022-02-06T21:32:31.598+00:00Hmm. Politicians motivate success, and select winn...Hmm. Politicians motivate success, and select winners. You mean like they did for nigh on fifty years from the end of WW2? What was the result of that? smurfukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04812247601237248526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-21612491646900617452022-02-06T14:18:42.647+00:002022-02-06T14:18:42.647+00:00The DfT does not do bus services. However it can m...The DfT does not do bus services. However it can make grants or generic subsidies. The BSIP process is a way of getting LTAs to write down a list of possible improvements. It is a competition and the winning entries will share a £1.2bn prize fund. The LTAs would be expected to fund some items on the list as and when locally appropriate. Some areas will have the opportunity to claim that their scheme was not on the LTAs submission and why not. The LTAs which did not satisfactorily apply will be treated to a more stick approach.<br /><br />In west Dorset Lyme Regis, Beaminster and Bridport town councils all fund bus enhancements.<br /><br />Also in that area the 9, 157 and X53 have all recently acquired winter Sunday services without DfT funding.<br /><br />London: The government has a "levelling up" policy. Funding to provide all under 16s and over 60s in London with free travel by all modes is not acceptable, when that does not apply north of Watford. There is a lot of politics and not purely money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com