Who are we?
Better Buses for South Yorkshire is a coalition of climate campaigns, unions, community groups, passengers, and individual activists based around Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.
To win better buses we believe we need to:
- Take back control of the network, with franchising as a first step.
- Bring buses back into public ownership.
- Receive proper long term funding.
- Have a high quality system run for the people and planet, not just for profit.
- Give the public a real voice over how the system is run.
What's on this page?
- Who are we?
- What do we want?
- What have we won so far?
- How can you get involved?
What do we want?
We need a reliable, affordable, and integrated network to travel to work, shop, keep appointments and socialise. But nearly 40 years of privatisation have left us with an overpriced, infrequent and unreliable service.
Buses are now less frequent, late or non-existent, fares have gone up and passenger numbers have plummeted. Government funding cuts make the situation even worse.
Lack of good, reliable public transport has many negative results:
- The 26% of us without access to a car can't lead normal, predictable lives.
- More traffic congestion clogging up our roads.
- Poor air quality that is damaging to.human health.
- More collisions on our roads causing death and injuries.
- More carbon gases making the climate crisis worse.
We believe that a fully public system is needed to deliver on these priorities. Our briefing explaining the need for this approach to South Yorkshire Mayor, Oliver Coppard, can be found here.