Funding for the new bus network is in place until 2025, but two of the region's political heavyweights have differing ideas on how it should be paid for after that
Greater Manchester's new Bee Network launched in a blaze of publicity on Sunday as the region became the first in England to bring buses back under public control since deregulation in the 1980s.
After that Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham wants the Government to chip in. But if that's not forthcoming, he's floated the idea of using the 'tourist tax' to pay for the bus network. Read more: "That is a recipe for levelling DOWN... we won't forget it": Andy Burnham rails against possible plans 'to scrap Birmingham to Manchester HS2 leg'
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