The reason West Yorkshire is following the Manchester model, is because Manchester has gone through the whole legal process of objections etc from bus companies/operators/owners etc so there would be very limited grounds for court appeals in west Yorks as virtually everything that could be argued has been and resolved.
With regards to infrastructure: Bramley is life expired and requires a vast amount of money to bring it up to modern standards & Hunslet (which was adapted from being a printing works was) originally only meant to be temporary -- the plan was to replace both a big purpose built super depot on the Cross Green industrial park. Most of the other West Yorks depots are either old or not in great shape so would also require either substantial investment or relocation to new build.
With regard to enhanced partnerships, these are usually just gentleman's agreements and not always legally binding so are not really any good for the customer. For instance -- we said we will run every ten mins with new buses after 6 months becomes every 20 mins with second hand wrecks from elsewhere.
With regards to infrastructure: Bramley is life expired and requires a vast amount of money to bring it up to modern standards & Hunslet (which was adapted from being a printing works was) originally only meant to be temporary -- the plan was to replace both a big purpose built super depot on the Cross Green industrial park. Most of the other West Yorks depots are either old or not in great shape so would also require either substantial investment or relocation to new build.
With regard to enhanced partnerships, these are usually just gentleman's agreements and not always legally binding so are not really any good for the customer. For instance -- we said we will run every ten mins with new buses after 6 months becomes every 20 mins with second hand wrecks from elsewhere.