(26 May 2024, 9:23 pm)Ambassador wrote Can I just clarify….as a professional, do you think this is a good thing? 

Because if you do, this explains why the network is utterly dead on its arse, GNE an unloved joke and arriva ne running itself into the ground

Definitely not a good thing -- as few of the people involved in NECA/Nexus have any experience in running large scale bus networks, nor has Cllr Gannon.

Clearly Kim should take advice from her opposite number in Manchester as to what the issues are with setting up a franchised network, what to copy and what not to copy.

And find out the issues that have arisen in actually running a franchised network - the published Bee Network reliability statistics are very poor (even after adding 20 buses into Tranche 1), and the whole transfer of depots, staff and buses between operators has, apparently, gone far from smoothly for Go Ahead or Stagecoach.

https://tfgm.com/ways-to-travel/bus/punc.../19-25-may

https://democracy.greatermanchester-ca.g...tteeId=442