(01 Aug 2022, 8:00 pm)V514DFT wrote I hear you, im 29,and when growing up,i remember being able to get a bus virtually anywhere,but sadly i think those times are long gone
I'm twice your age (literally!) and can remember when buses really did go everywhere. That was back in the 1970s and 1980s when there was still a rush hour and pits etc open with people travelling all over on public transport to go to work. Even in the early 00s there were still lots of bus services and there were a number of bus companies that ran services in Washington, not just GNE. The other companies were either bought out or closed down. Then in 2006 GNE decided to overhaul its bus network and took away many of the individual services after some consultation exercise with an outisde organisation. Consolidation they termed it. I would call it cutting services!
I can't actually see passenger numbers coming back or at least back in decent numbers. Work patterns have changed and people now just don't want to rely on a patchy bus service if they have an early strt or a late finish. Plus people don't even seem to want to use buses for leisure travel, especially on an evening.