Mid Wales pilot franchising plan ‘increases bus costs by 62%’

Rhodri Clark
17 July 2025
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The Welsh “bridge to franchising” tendering exercise in Mid Wales has resulted in a 62% cost increase, although Welsh bus franchising is premised on no increase in resources.

Ken Skates, Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales, announced the “bridge to franchising” in January, saying that most of the Mid Wales network is tendered and this provided scope “to trial very similar conditions to those we may choose to use under franchising”. He also said:...

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