Functions
TfGM does not run passenger services, but is responsible for:
- Subsidising bus services that are considered socially necessary but would not otherwise be viable, and providing bus stops and shelters.
- Managing the funding and administration of concessionary fares for the elderly and disabled etc. TfGM also runs "Ring-and-Ride" services for the disabled.
- Specifying fares and service levels of local train services.
- Funding, promoting and managing major county-wide public transport initiatives such as transport interchanges and the Metrolink.
- Providing information about public transport services, and operates multi-modal ticketing schemes.
TfGM owns the Manchester Metrolink light rail system, operated under a concession by Serco until taken over by Stagecoach on Sunday 15 July 2007 on a fixed contract, with the concession reverting to TfGM.
Read more about this topic: Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive
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“One of the most highly valued functions of used parents these days is to be the villains of their children’s lives, the people the child blames for any shortcomings or disappointments. But if your identity comes from your parents’ failings, then you remain forever a member of the child generation, stuck and unable to move on to an adulthood in which you identify yourself in terms of what you do, not what has been done to you.”
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious—to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)