(16 Aug 2021, 10:21 pm)Andreos1 wrote Or... And this is a big ask and one that I keep bringing up...
They operate services that take people to where the actually need to be.
The network is pretty much as it was 30/40/50 years ago when people worked/shopped in town centres and lived on a council estate, on the edge of the town centre.
Fast forward to 2021 and commercial teams still think thats the case. Except it isn't. They're not savvy enough to try something different and spend time reallocating vehicles, spending money at their mates design agency, changing route numbers and reducing fleet sizes, to suit a dwindling market.
Despite there being a ripe new market, sitting there and being ignored.
They're shouting. They're telling the operators what they need, they're sitting in queues of traffic (holding up buses heading in a different direction) and they're being ignored.
Use it or lose it threats aren't going to work, when nobody uses it in the first place
Bus operators simply don't have the resource to operate services for every possible direct journey permutation at a frequency attractive enough to get more people out of cars. A quick look at any operating companies filled account will bear that out clearly enough.
So unless you want them to get the "begging bowl" out so they fulfil your dreams, I doubt it's going to happen......