Transport for Wales – Bus Project
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What we’re doing
The Welsh Government and Transport for Wales are working to reform and redesign the existing bus network, principally through bus franchising.
Later this year we’re starting public engagement. In readiness, we want to understand what people want to ‘have their say’ on when it comes to bus franchising in their region, and how.
We want to find out:
What’s important to you about bus in your community
How you like to give us your views during the public engagement phase
How we can best share information on franchising and get more people involved
Read more about why Welsh Government wants to change the law around bus franchising: Bus reform for Wales: our roadmap to franchising | GOV.WALES(External link)
Your contributions will help us plan our public engagement. You can get involved by:
Completing our surveys
Joining the conversation by posting your comments in the forum
A chance to enter our prize draw
You’ll also be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win:
1st place will win a £100 Love2Shop voucher
2nd and 3rd place will win £50 Love2Shop voucher
Who is organising and who is funding/commissioning the project?
This project is organised by Transport for Wales, who’ll use the findings to plan public engagement for bus franchising, which commences in South West Wales first, later this year.
Share your views on franchising the bus network
We want you to help us understand what’s important to you about bus in your community and how you like to have your say.
The Welsh Government and Transport for Wales are working with bus operators and key stakeholders across Wales to reform and redesign the existing bus network.
We know that the current network and service provision does not meet the needs of the communities of Wales, especially those in the South West, where other forms of public transport are not as readily available or accessible.
The current system of deregulation allows operators to run bus services commercially. This leaves local authorities with the responsibility of funding and providing socially necessary bus services. The current system makes it difficult to bring together commercial and socially necessary bus services in a way that puts the customer at the heart of the bus network.
It is therefore important that we take steps to rectify this, bringing a modern, reliable, affordable, well connected and integrated bus service to the region through the process of franchising.
To attract more people to use buses, we want to build a simpler bus network which is linked in with the rest of public transport in Wales and easy to navigate (One Network), with coordinated timetables which are easy to use and allow connection across public transport in Wales (One Timetable) and simpler ticketing which enables travel across public transport in Wales with affordable and consistent fares (One Ticket).
The Bus Reform Bill is going through the Senedd and we’re aiming to introduce franchising from Summer 2027, but work is underway to prepare for this transition. A regional approach is being taken to deliver bus reform and the key dates and regions, as they stand currently are:
South West Wales – 2027
North Wales – 2028
South East Wales – 2029
Mid Wales – 2030
As we begin our work to roll out franchising to the first of the four zones we’ll publish a regional engagement commitment that details our plans to involve local communities. The commitment will focus on capturing the views of local service users and potential service users to ensure we build a network that local people want and can use.
To help us prepare these commitment plans, we want to hear from you.
Fill in the survey. It’s important for our local, particularly with the recent loss of the G1 service in Gwaelod y Garth.
