(09 Jan 2019, 12:58 am)omnicity4659 wrote Nexus and the councils are being hit with heavy cuts, ever increasing year on year... the only way for many subsidised services to continue is if the passengers subsidise them! When commercial bus services have flopped, yes, Nexus and the councils do step in and fund them, but like I say, that pot is getting smaller.
As for DB selling off Arriva back to private ownership... Deutsche Bahn AG is a private company.
Except the owners are the German Government.