Council Floats Its Own Buses; X56 Fans ‘Cautiously Thrilled’
Plan to develop an in-house public transport model goes to full council.
A bus, possibly ours one day. Photo: Ninian Reid from Perth, Scotland, “Stagecoach Strathtay bus 10004 (SP12 CFX), Perth bus station, route 12 to Blairgowrie, 21 November 2014”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
PERTH — Perth and Kinross Council could set up its own in-house public transport operation, with full council asked to approve up to £500,000 for a business case. The proposal follows the loss of the X56 Perth–Edinburgh route and cuts elsewhere.
Bus enthusiasts celebrated by standing at stops looking hopeful, which is what they do anyway. A report warns an in-house model “should not be assumed to be lower cost”, which locals described as “the most Scottish sentence ever written by a bus”.
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