[garinda]

If there is the odd fifty million pounds, of tax payer's money, hanging about in the spare change coffers at County Hall, and they really did want to speed up traffic flow, and cut the bus journey times, they could always employ 125 bus conductors, pay them £20,000.00 per annum say, for the next twenty years.

Hey presto!

The cost of £50 million is the same as the Pennine Reach scheme.

125 local people are in employment, for the next two decades.

Traffic isn't held up, as it is now on pay as you enter. Anyone who's seen the bus arrive at Rhyddings School at home time, with the bus parked, taking fares for between 5-15 minutes, with no one able to pass, and the traffic stretching back to Church traffic lights, will vouch for this.

More people might be tempted onto the buses, if they feel safer having a conductor on board. Someone who's able to shout at rowdy passengers, and tell louts to get their feet off the seats, and help those who need assistance getting on, or alighting the bus, etc.

Finally, the best benefit of all, is the economy wouldn't be damaged, by the loss of trade no parking along the entire Pennine Reach route would inevitably bring about.