(03 Oct 2023, 8:48 pm)TEN 6083 wrote MG may have had his faults, but things didn’t get so bad that the drivers went on strike. GNE has regressed a lot more since he came in and aren’t the first operator to go on strike with him there, as GNW did the same a couple of years back.
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Disagree personally. MG caused all this crap.
The fare reductions was one of the most insane ideas ever, literal suicide as if it didn't increase numbers then they're screwed which basically happened as the cancellations that have been consistent which was caused massively by the Chester depot closure - another short sighted idea. People didn't care mainly about the fare reductions but by god do they care about the increases even known it's roughly the same fare. Bad bad decision.
Not to mention GNE jumped the gun in reducing bus routes. If you want to regrow buses jamming people onto less frequent buses when people are scared to go out is totally counter productive. Both Arriva and Stagecoach held off most frequency reductions and in some areas have recovered much better and some of the reductions resulted in bigger buses ie. 1/2 at Blyth so was no real reduction in seats.
Feetham inherited a massive mess.