(30 Mar 2014, 2:19 pm)VolvoMarkII wrote Let me guess, another person stuck in 1985?
Until people wake up and realise that the days of buses to everywhere and anywhere, running all hours is gone, there is no point trying to explain.
Put it this way, there are a lot less passengers around these days, especially as car ownership has soared in the past 25 years.
Traffic on our roads is higher now than any other time in history.
Yet, with those two points, people still think buses should run all day, at unrealistic frequencies, to carry fresh air, but also with the added requirement to float over the traffic to maintain timetables.
A business is a business, doesn't matter what the product is. A business is there to make money. Nobody has a given right to a bus service, so if you have one, be thankful for what you have.
It will never go back into public hands, as the cost is disproportionate to the demand.
If demand existed, the same level of services would exist.
Buses are still busy nowdays, although not as busy, do seem to be increasing again, slowly.