The UK has some of the worst public transport of Europe’s “more economically developed countries” after decades of austerity and lack of investment into public services. But which local councils would you say have made the most out of what they have had to work with in developing a transport network that is effective for people to get to work, school and social events? What would you say makes each of them so effective and how did they achieve these things? I have excluded London as the UK (in my opinion) has a problem with pretending like London is the only place worth investing in when it comes to public transport.

I ask this question so that we can reflect on how places can make the average citizen’s life easier for getting about whilst on a budget. Even though the UK is in dire straights at the moment, it might be worth looking to the towns and cities that make the most out of what they’re given to understand how to develop good public transport (which will inevitably develop those micro-economies)

Thanks.

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    6 months ago

    RMTransit just did a video about how it’s basically impossible to have good public transit without London-style city control.

    The comments on his video list certain cities where the council own a bus company and everything works okay.

    Note that the north of England almost got an Oyster card style of combined payment system thanks to tfN.