Don't miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox Greater Manchester will become the first place outside of London to bring buses back into public control since the 1980s after historic reforms were signed off by Andy Burnham.
The mayor hailed the introduction of bus franchising as a ‘game changer’ for a city-region which had looked on ‘with envy’ at the capital’s integrated public transport system.
It will mean that passengers will ride buses and trams on a ‘seamless’ system with capped fares and routes and managed by local authorities instead of private bus operators.
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