Bus
A modern, integrated, and innovative bus system, which puts customers first.
Aim
A modern, integrated, and innovative bus system which puts customers first.
What success will look like
- A bus network that puts customers first
- Improved connectivity to areas of economic opportunity
- Significantly reduced local emissions
- Improved access to health services, education, employment, leisure and retail destinations for our communities
Strengths
- Biggest mover of people by public transport in West Yorkshire
- Provides connectivity across the region
- Operators are working with the Combined Authority through an established Bus Alliance
- Increasing low carbon fleets in West Yorkshire –over half of the buses are Euro VI or better
Challenges
- Declining patronage
- Reduction in miles operated commercially by the bus operators
- Increasing operational conditions due to highway congestion
Policies and strategies
- West Yorkshire Bus Strategy (2017-2027) – a daughter document of the West Yorkshire Transport Strategy
Who’s helping make this happen
- The bus operators of West Yorkshire through the West Yorkshire Bus Alliance
- Local Authority partners