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Bury already has a mayor and I guess the tram service has improved public transport a fair bit. I've no idea whether the Mayor actually has any input though.
Plus you've got the bag of wank that is Northern Rail that they don't have any influence over.
It would make a good headline though and that's the important thing.
aggi
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mayors? how would this even work? in bury (to take an example completely at random) the council is labour controlled but the borough now has two tory MPs. and its buses and trams are run by a mix of private and public-controlled bodies (not least because thatcher deregulated buses outside london in the 80s, which is one reason why buses outside london are shit, but nobody in london knows that).