(18 Aug 2021, 9:29 am)Andreos1 wrote Didn't MG state that those services to Caversham were going to be split in to a mixture of growth and cost saving measures?
Rather than continue to market and look to grow the services.
https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/people...aled-back/
Indeed, they even started encouraging punters in parts of the area to use the TT services that pass through on their way to/from Oxford.
About a year later, further changes were made due to traffic issues.
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/96...53056?s=19
I wonder if it was the good folk of Caversham and the public transport not taking them to/from where they needed to be?
I'm thinking Kennet Island and towards the M4, with the vast numbers of employers around there and where it is easier to drive in from one side of the river and out of Reading on the other, than it is changing buses in the town centre.
Do buses take people where they want to go?
Yes
Do buses take everybody where they want to go?
No
Why not?
There isn't enough resource available to do that.
If I'm running a bus service and I am seeing 1 or 2% drop in passenger numbers each year and making a modest profit, yes I am thinking how I am going to get that back, but I cannot forget about my EXISTING customers - which still make up the bulk of my passengers. If I do a huge change in an attempt to get back some of that 2% or even get new customers then I am undoubtedly going to upset my existing customers, which means I could lose even more.
I actually think these GNE changes are pretty risky with that in mind.