Last month Welsh Government laid its bus services revolution (consistently supported by this column) before the Senedd with the Bus Services (Wales) Bill and the accompanying analysis of operating options, costs and benefits.

It has fallen to the Senedd and Welsh Government to create a passenger oriented integration of the network, timetable and ticketing simply because the operators themselves seem unable to work together. Not even when most non-municipal bus services in Wales were owned by state-owned National Bus Company (1969- 1988).

The government have presented three options for franchising buses:

Bus reform follows the principles of one network, one timetable and one ticket, a concept successfully used in countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark and Estonia similar to Wales in size and population density.

The bill’s principles were originally written by this........

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