(18 Nov 2021, 9:46 am)Andreos1 wrote Pretty sure any political party/La agreeing to this, would see their share of the vote fall next time there was any sort of vote.
My proposal is a little more radical and would see the end to Nexus subsidising these bus routes, the constant threat of withdrawals coming to an end (with Nexus, DCC or NCC being placed over a barrel by the operators, passengers seeing the end to multiple operators running a route (depending on the time of day) and ticketing anomalies reducing etc.
It involves the operators running services commercially.
It involves operators not picking and choosing the runs they see the money in and not bothering with the ones they don't see money in.
It means the end of bolting on a failing service on to a subsided service (see the 71) and still apparently failing to make it work commercially.
If the twirly passes were cancelled, I wonder what that would do to operator revenues?
Assuming they only receive the concession fare and aren't given any other rebate to cover the balance of the actual fare.
I suspect your proposal is hugely different to that of Central Government, local authorities and commercial bus operators.
I suspect if operators were to go ahead with your proposal then they would go bust in less than a year. That's the harsh reality of the impact of Covid.