00:00 This is the final countdown to the B network.
00:03 Have you all got that song in your heads now?
00:05 It'll be there.
00:06 You'll be cursing me all day now, won't you, with that.
00:09 But it really is.
00:10 It's a month to go before we retake control
00:15 of our buses here in Greater Manchester
00:17 after four decades of deregulation
00:20 and a bus system that's gone backwards in that time.
00:24 This is a hugely important moment for Greater Manchester.
00:29 And behind me, for the first time on Greater Manchester soil
00:33 is a new Greater Manchester icon,
00:36 the zero emission B network bus.
00:39 And they look absolutely fantastic.
00:41 We're sat here on one of the new buses in the fleet
00:57 that's now gonna serve both Wigan and Bolton.
00:59 The first of the B line rollout,
01:01 which starts on the 24th of September.
01:03 And what we certainly do know from today's visit,
01:06 the quality of the transport we are talking about.
01:09 And it's certainly, I think,
01:10 when people get on board with these new buses,
01:12 will fully appreciate that public transport
01:15 is not a second class option.
01:17 It's a first class delivery.
01:19 And this is what the B line will bring to Wigan.
01:22 (silence)
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