(17 Aug 2021, 9:34 pm)DeltaMan wrote 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?
Im not sure of your point? You are missing the mark completely.
Shareholders or not, Reading Buses is run as an arms length division with the intention to make profits and make acquisitions (it does and has done both). It’s not being run as a charity and it suffers the same problems.
ask Wokingham borough council, since they had to fund the tendered services during the last run of cuts by Reading.