(17 Aug 2021, 8:58 pm)Ambassador wrote 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.I am sure nobody could accuse Reading Buses of being held hostage by shareholders, corporate higher ups or running cap in hand to the council for money (imagine that...)
And yet MG made some hefty cuts to services around an area called Caversham towards the end of his time down there, including whole Sunday services being ditched. With no shareholders to worry about, I wonder why those changes were made? Do you think it may be the same reason the changes up north are being made?