Summary:
- Connecting Portsmouth with other areas (more routes) would increase bus usage ‘to a great extent’ for 54% of respondents, and similarly, ‘better integration with other buses (i.e. seamless transfers)’ would do so for 53% of respondents
- The next four options have similar levels of impact in increasing bus usage ‘to a great extent’, just not amongst a majority; co-ordinating changes to timetables (i.e. between bus providers) (50%), giving buses priority on the road wherever necessary (and where there is room) (48%), decreasing car usage in order to reduce congestion to allow for an increase in bus services (47%) and better integration with trains (i.e. bus-train interchanges) (46%)
- Better linking to walking and cycle routes has the least appeal – it will encourage just over a third of respondents to increase their use of bus services ‘to a great extent’