"Depending on the way it is implemented, and there can be a large amount of local government control in the exact rates, it could potentially raise between £50 million and £800 million a year using rough salary estimates. Ka-ching."

"This breeds an implicit understanding that where a company chooses to base itself has an impact on the locality and its workers and employers cannot outsource transport costs to the individual"

"If a company employs 20 people and pays them a combined total of £1m then they could pay between £5.5k – £29.5k in transport tax depending on where they are based."

"It provides a stable source of income to the local transport authority to allow them to plan long term investment in the network, rolling stock and staff. It means the local transport authority does not need to go cap in hand to the government asking them to reinstate certain funding streams"

"This one goes by a few different names: versement mobilité in France, public transportation levy in Vienna, or simply payroll tax in the USA. This is a tax levied on employers in the region which is paid directly to the regional transport authority."

"tourist tax for Glasgow folk, fund our buses they're a joke!"

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"It is about recognising that public transport (and all of our public services) are a need and a right and that they must not be used to line the pockets of a greedy few. This is about so much more than buses, it’s about building back our communities to finally, at long last, let Glasgow flourish."

"if SPT do their work well, we will have the template for publicly controlled, publicly accountable bus services across the whole of Scotland. It should be important to everyone (MSPs included) that it succeeds."

"It’s not just that we have been waiting for six years since the Transport Act was passed for guidance on implementing bus franchising to re-regulate the bus network, it is the fact that public transport is a vital public service which is not at all functioning under our current deregulated system."

"tourist tax for Glasgow folk, fund our buses they're a joke!"

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"two of the founding organisations of the @betterbusesspt.bsky.social campaign have come together to demand that revenue from the proposed tourist tax for Glasgow is given directly to SPT to help them deliver the most ambitious form of bus franchising."

"Lower income areas tend to be poorly connected, requiring several bus journeys to access work, healthcare, leisure activities or visit family, this adds greater heft to the transport lock but, thankfully, we now have the key."

@anthonycarroll.bsky.social has been in the Glasgow Times lamenting the lack of amenities and a regular bus service for the new housing development in Sighthill...Cllr Robert Mooney highlighted Milton as another “desert”, pointing out the lack of supermarkets and reliable bus services"

"To make a bad situation worse, the transport links were poor or non-existent and the schemes were built too far from the city to make walking an option for many...However, these issues have not been consigned to history, despite being well documented."

"Along with food costs, housing and transport are the three main household expenditures and if the provision of these is poor then communities are locked into a poverty spiral—that’s the real triple lock for many."