(12 Sep 2021, 10:04 am)Andreos1 wrote And look at the problems it creates?I never said it was moraly right. Capitalism is simply the system inplemented by consecutive govermenments voted in by the masses or some crap like that.
Those starving families a by-product of it...
But aye, keep the status quo and allow businesses designed to benefit shareholders do their own thing. Maybe leeching off the taxpayer at the same time.
I mean, commercial risk is surely linked to capitalism too. Yet here we are, with those companies taking very little commercial risk.
From what I'm told by a friend that works within the social sector of Hartlepool Council, one of the biggest funding problems is the lack of high value housing, meaning they have a higher proportion of band A properties than most other local authority areas, this coupled with over a decade of funding cuts = less funding for what's deemed as less important sectors, such as transport.
Other areas wich may affect the bus industry in the town are the exeptionally cheap taxi's - which again, I'm told make remarkably little profit. Whether this is because of cheap fares, cometition, or maybe a lack of social travel because of the low income much of the local population has due to high unemployment.
Whatever the solution is, it won't be solved overnight by a bus company resurecting long forgotten routes that few if anybody is going to patronise.