(17 Aug 2021, 8:06 pm)Keeiajs wrote I understand how these changes can impact people, I know people they have impacted, but if that route is basically in the red a lot then sometimes especially in these times they won't be able to operate especially with how the services are these days.
and that’s the crux of the impossible problem. Private companies with shareholders running public services Those routes that can’t be commercially run are then tendered into a race to the bottom.
Areas of low car ownership which tend to be lower end of demographics get a pretty poor service and those people are forced to interchange and spend more money on tickets whereas the higher end of the demographics likes of Low Fell, to an extent parts of Birtley and Chester and Durham get a great service.