Member

I welcome the alternative solution that the Minister prefers, which is that traffic commissioners should summon the local authorities which have painfully slow bus routes to ask them what they are doing about congestion. Most local authorities have access to powers to speed up bus services; some are very reluctant to use them. I believe that if the local authorities, the officers and the officials were summoned to a traffic commissioner’s court to give an explanation of their lack of action, this may be a better way of proceeding than imposing financial penalties, which are apparently not the Government’s preferred route.