For bus companies and their passengers, there is the prospect of service that actually runs on schedule, allowing more efficient use of vehicles.
Creating the estimated 1 million service slots required to make the prospect of service truly universal will take money, from government and private philanthropy.
In other words, bondholders would be guaranteed repayment while taxpayers face the prospect of service cuts or tax hikes in the event of a downturn.
"We face the prospect of NHS services being placed in the middle of a costly bidding war with private companies, discrete services cherry-picked for profit while the NHS is left to run the more complex and expensive services but with less money," the Labour peer added.
After a decade of expansion, with regional airports enjoying an unprecedented boom, the prospect of reduced services and even closures suddenly seems very real.
As for the prospect of sharing services, Vincent Asciolla, the president of the Helmetta Council, said that the borough already had several agreements in place with neighboring towns.
And now they're facing the prospect of more services leaving the council within months – everything from children's centres to school dinners.
Unlike the United States, Iran has little to offer Iraqis — neither a political or economic model, nor the prospect of improved services, jobs or reform.
But do the planned changes for England outlined in the government's health and social care reforms offer older people the prospect of improved services in the new-look NHS?
However, a spokesman for Cosla said that while the employers organisation was "appreciative" that local government workers has acted with "restraint" in pursuing pay awards, he said councils were still facing the prospect of delivering services in difficult economic times.
Otherwise the main topics for debate will probably be issues which concern both Houses - the restoration and renewal programme, which could cost several billion pounds, and see Parliament having to move out of its home, and the prospect of sharing services between the Lords and Commons, in order to cut costs.
