Recommendation 2

We welcome the funding for Bus Service Improvement Plans made available as part of the Government’s National Bus Strategy. It will do much good. Yet just over £1 billion is simply not enough money to produce real improvements in bus services across the country. Local areas were asked to be ambitious, but the Department has not matched this level of ambition in the funding it has made available. Instead local areas were pitted against each other for an often miserly share of an inadequate pot.