Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament

Rejected petition Regulate all bus services across Greater Manchester by December 2019.

Currently the bus services in Greater Manchester are not regulated and offer a unreliable services and reduced routes. Please adopt the similar approach to London by having regulation that has standard capped fairs and one ticket type across the multiple bus franchises by December 2019 or earlier.

More details

https://www.themeteor.org/2019/02/05/majority-favour-re-regulating-buses-in-gm/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/08/half-bus-routes-could-scrapped-underfunded-free-pass-scheme/

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/deregulated-bus-services-greater-manchester-regulation-transport-travel-andy-burnham/

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It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We can't accept your petition because this would be a decision for the Mayor of Greater Manchester and Transport for Greater Manchester and not the UK Government and Parliament.

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https://tfgm.com/future-travel/bus-reform

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