Clause 58
Local Transport Bill [Lords]
6:00 pm
Graham Stringer (Manchester, Blackley, Labour)
If I remember rightly, about two and half years ago, in answer to a parliamentary question about responsibility for traffic delays and congestion, one of the Minister’s predecessors said that two thirds of the problems with late buses were caused by the bus operators themselves. Does she have an update on that figure? That is an important matter, because part of the large bus operators’ propaganda is that it is always the local authorities’ fault. In fact, it is usually their own fault for not having the right engineering facilities or drivers available.