North Yorkshire's mayor says there will be improvements to the county's bus services this year.
It's 12 months since David Skaith was elected as the first Mayor of York and North Yorkshire and given extensive powers over public transport.
Mayor Skaith says improvements are on the way but says many of the changes will involve working with neighbouring mayors.
"It's a case of bringing together York and North Yorkshire's bus priority plans, delivering together what we want to see and then getting all those operators around the table. But the other really key part of the thing with transport, which we wouldn't have had the emphasis on before, is working outside of those borders and understanding that so much of our travel in York and North Yorkshire comes outside of our borders, and how we link in with the, our neighbouring combined authorities to have that strategic view of making sure that people can transfer, into Tees Valley, for example, into South and West Yorkshire.
And we almost take away those borders because that's so much of where our our transport is happening.
It is an ongoing process, but we're very confident that some of the wins will be able to bring through this year. We'll have a really big improvement , but always having that long-term goal of going down that franchising model"
Mayor David Skaith says there have already been some changes and has promised further improvements this year.
"So we've already invested 50,000 pounds into the Moors bus. We've kept the one pound cap for under 19 year olds in our region as well.
And we had our first bus form a couple weeks ago with all the operators in the region to understand what our long-term plans are gonna be around what franchising model would go down, but also looking at what those short-term and earlier wins are, so it is an ongoing process, but we're very confident that some of the winds will be able to bring through this year. "
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