(12 Apr 2020, 1:28 pm)Andreos1 wrote Which was amongst the reasons why de-regulation was pushed through in 86 and why the white paper was published in 85.
They wanted to achieve those things and encourage competition. 

The funding continues to prop up the industry and the competition they wanted fell away in most areas. 
For the operators, its win/win. 
They get to do what they want, operate when and where they want and have their begging bowl to help them out.

If the shareholders stopped lining there pockets and use the money back into the UK transport system, and stop getting handouts and money incentives from the government to improve bus services, bus routes and timetables should be in the hands of the councils/local authorities and not in the hands of the bus companies, as the bus companies are running a Public service which suit themselves and forcing passengers to go via the moon to get to there destination, at the moment council/local authorities have to fork out money which there don’t have to run bus services because the bus companies says there’s no profit, bus companies need to put passengers first as there pay there wages and put profit behind, no wonder there’s a lot of passengers have decided to use the car, and now there saying there’s to many cars clogging the road system up and asking for bus priority bus lanes etc, how many employees have cars to get to work at their bus depot due to not be able to get to work by bus as it doesn’t exist or been cut or it would take about 4 or 5 times longer than the car, bus journeys are more expensive these days than car.


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