Background

People in Scotland are not using buses as much as they used to. More people are driving their cars.

Rules are now being changed to give local transport authorities powers to make buses better. Local transport authorities are organisations that are in charge of public transport in a local area.

Transport Scotland did a consultation in 2021 to ask what people and organisations think. The consultation was about the new powers for local transport.

These powers are:

Local transport authorities (LTAs) can run their own bus services
Local transport authorities can work together with bus companies and other organisations. These are called Bus Service Improvement Partnerships (BSIPs)
Local transport authorities can choose to use a franchising system. This means they can choose a company to run bus services for a set period of time
Local transport authorities can get information from companies when a bus route is changed or cancelled.

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