(12 Jun 2023, 4:42 pm)Adrian wrote The choice is likely to be taken out of their hands. Looking at the vote share across the region, the Mayor elected next May is most likely going to be the Labour candidate. The front-runner has already committed to urgently taking buses back into public control.

I remain to be convinced about DRT vs other options, such as redistributing the network, but clearly we need to find a sensible way of serving these smaller communities and not cutting them off.

Having the buses in public control would be interesting, at least that'd be a better use of the absurd council tax some places in the north east pay