Enhanced Bus Partnership Scheme: 2022-2025

Each stage of the plan will be delivered in formal legal partnership schemes between the City Council and all bus operators.

The first scheme will run from 1 May 2022 – 30 April 2025 and will commit each party to deliver 100 projects and changes costing nearly £100m, inlcuding:

• Branded urban bus network with 25 co-ordinated ‘Mainlines’

• Branded wider-area network with 6 electric ‘Greenlines’, including a new free City Centre electric bus route

• Over 135 new electric buses covering a third of the network

• New enforced bus lanes on upto 12 of Mainlines & Greenlines

• Network-wide digital ‘best fare’ ticketing

• Discounted ticketing for targeted groups

• A new bus station at St Margaret’s

• Over 450 new bus shelters

• Over 1000 new bus stop ‘totems’.

• Over 650 real time displays at all main bus stops

• Maps and joint timetables at over 1000 bus stops.

• Network wide promotions

• Set council central area parking above the cost of a day bus ticket.

• Consult on introducing a workplace parking levy

• Agree a partnership scheme customer charter

Full details of the scheme can be found below:

To help us with this ongoing process a Enhanced Partnership Forum has been established in 2022 with representatives from interested organisations and individuals.

Further stages of the Partnership Scheme will be developed with this Forum in line with future successful funding bids and local available