It’s not but probably all it merits. The network has lost a generation of passengers who have either been at home, use cars or just don’t see buses as reliable (not even taking into account a generation of school kids who’ve missed whole years of school and those early days of freedom)
Parents won’t put their nearest and dearest on a bus, commuters can’t rely on them and those that stick in aren’t rewarded, leisure travellers are turning to taxis, OAPs are staying local and ticketing is still restrictive and poor value…all added in with budget cuts and a government that doesn’t care about buses all that much. It’s much like the rail industry but minus the bonus of rail which has seen a switch from mid week commuter peaks to weekend peaks
More to come…
