(15 Feb 2022, 1:58 pm)Andreos1 wrote Nope. You're not.More recently the 29 which used to be secured then GNE took it commercially as GCT were though to have had a good chance to run it.
To think an operator may just not break even, but is more than happy running it under subsidy shows how broken the system really is.
They're not bothered about passengers. They're not bothered about the tax payer.
Because if they were, I'd argue that this whole process wouldn't exist in the first place.
Theres been many an example of an operator running something courtesy of their begging bowl, to then suddenly decide that very same service is commercially viable once someone else wins the tender.
Also going back i while i remember the 44b being run by OK travelo as a conection from newcastle to dinnington via hazlerrig when Northumbria changed the 44 to hazlerigg to whitlybay. It made so much money the ok travel took it on commercially. Go ahnead then took them over and it disappeared.