This has been based on significant research and consultation. It sets out the main issues and agreed priorities to transform bus travel and help in the fair and sustainable growth of Leicester.

A package of around £130m further investment and a comprehensive range of actions by all the partners will deliver the plan.

A network of 30 high quality Mainlines each with:

• Electric buses

• Frequency of every 15 mins or better

• Integrated timetabling across operators

• Enforced bus priority measures

• Electronic information screens on bus and at all boarding stops

• Contactless ‘best’ fare tap-on, tap-off ticketing

• Simplified fares structure with no interchange penalty

• Full Leicester Buses network branding throughout

• Significantly Improved Orbital and Park & Ride lines

A transformed high quality bus network that is:

Electric, Frequent, Reliable, Easy and Great value.

For less than the cost of a single tram line!

Funding the Plan

• The overall Plan will cost over £300m and around £10m per annum to fund.

• We’ve already invested over £170m.

• We hope to bring in a further £130m of investment over the next 4 years.

• We also hope to increase our annual costs to £10m pa to keep everything going after 2030.

The Targets

Our main targets from 2022 – 2030 are ambitious but realistic:

• Increase bus trips by 40%

• Improve user satisfaction to over 90%

• Electric buses on whole network

We are on track for the period 2022-2025:

• Bus trips increased by 17.5%

• Satisfaction up to 87%

• Electric buses up to 75% current mainlines network