The bid for the introduction of London transport-style integrated ticketing was among the topics discussed at the latest Bradford Passenger Consultative Committee.

Highway maintenance, rolling train stock and the Local Transport Plan (LTP) were also points raised during the committee’s first meeting of 2011 at City Hall, Bradford. But Councillor Chris Greaves, chairman of West Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority, Metro, says there are still some sticking points in the campaign for the bus quality contracts and integrated bus travel across Yorkshire.

He wants passengers to be able to get on any bus run by any operator across the county, with a system similar to the Oyster Card in London.

However, he admitted some of the bus operators are not so enthusiastic.

“What did come out was the attitude of the operators on the quality contracts,” Coun Greaves said. “They’re obviously not at all keen and they say a quality partnership is just as good.

“A big sticking point is integrated ticketing.

“What we want is basically is a Yorkshire equivalent of any Oyster card where you can get on any bus and use any ticket on any bus. And they’re saying they want to keep their own ticket products.

“That’s what we really want to get rid of because at the moment people can watch 12 buses go past and they can’t get on because they’ve got the wrong ticket.”