Consultation Responses

The purpose of the draft bill is to tackle congestion and improve public transport through empowering local authorities to develop local solutions to local transport challenges and sets out:

• Proposals on reform to local bus services which aim to provide greater flexibility for local authorities to work with bus operators to deliver services that are better matched to the needs of passengers in their local areas. This includes a stronger leadership role for local authorities in partnerships with operators, making franchising a more realistic possibility and a revised framework to hold local authorities and operators to account for improved punctuality and reliability of bus services.
• Includes provisions to strengthen governance arrangements for transport planning and delivery in existing Passenger Transport (PTA) and major urban areas outside London. This will require major cities, and enable other areas to review and propose their own changes to existing transport governance arrangements and update the existing powers and duties of PTAs; and,
• Update existing provisions for local road pricing schemes to encourage local authorities to bring forward local road pricing schemes and seeks to provide more flexibility within a clear and accountable framework, whilst ensuring schemes are interoperable and consistent

View ANEC response to DfT's Local Transport Bill