On to the job description:
Providing strategic advice to the body in charge of strategy and investment decisions relating to public transport within Greater Manchester, ranging from the buses, trains and Metrolink to the Transport Innovation Fund bid and its plans for congestion charging.
Who writes these things? Strategic advice to the body in charge of strategy? What does that even mean?
I love how they tacked on the congestion charging thing into the body of the job advertisement. Pretty much decided then?
What Manchester does today, the rest of the country tends to follow, especially where regeneration and city governance is concerned. The focus is now very firmly on public transport, so the person who gets this job will be blazing a trail at the forefront of change. Make a success of it and a lucrative future as a consultant beckons.
I pretty much laughed out loud at this. Right, because Manchester is such a pinnacle of public transport right? My friends in London think Manchester public transport is bad. Blaizing a trail to the forefront of change! This isn't a god damned gold rush, you're telling a group of councils how to spend their money. And hey, guess what, if you do well, you can be an overpaid consultant wasting tax payers' money even more. Brilliant.
TheTIF bid is high risk and any number of things could go wrong. Meanwhile the economic adviser will have to keep an eye on the day job, which involves managing the relationship between the GMPTE and the widely differing requirements of the Department for Transport, the Office of Fair Trading, local and national operators and the business community. Oh, and the fares have to be kept down.
I did laugh out loud at this. Fares have to be kept down? Like that's a concern now? My 122 pound season ticket begs to differ.
Crain's Manchester business jobby thingie.
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