(24 Feb 2022, 12:08 am)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Biggest change in 35 years seems somewhat OTT. Yes these are pretty savage cuts but from what I see Nexus have done a pretty decent job of mitigating and in some cases improving links despite the operators interest solely in profit. I'm not sure these cuts are that much greater in magnitude than some we saw a few years ago for example across the Stagecoach networks in Sunderland and Newcastle, or indeed even as some of the GNE changes back when we were getting fit for the future to create a sustainable network six months ago!Maybe it is OTT, but I think it's getting to the stage where the public need to know what's going on.
I do think it should be much more visible when journeys or entire services are being run under subsidy rather than commercially (and this particularly applies where the commercial operator takes public money to run journeys on the same service in the evenings that don't give them enough profit to cream off for shareholders).
Operators are quick to stand there and show off a new vehicle and use the power of the media when its suits them. Maybe its time the media (and maybe even Nexus) use their voices at the times the operator is a little more reluctant to speak or communicate.
I've said it for a while and I'll say it again. The network is not fit for purpose. Cutting and axing routes does not fix the network or the problems that exist because of it.