(09 May 2021, 2:43 pm)Ambassador wrote Let’s be honest here, nobody outside this group cares about the missed mileage, vehicle presentation or awful on board musical choices.

And why? Because these are barely used tendered routes used by low socio economic folk and of no economic value to anyone. They could complain but the routes are a nuisance, they don’t generate enough profit and in honesty the users are less likely to vocalise their complain.

It’s not right but it’s a sad truth.

I don't really want to turn this into a politics thread but the subsidised services are more the opposite way imo and tend to serve more affluent areas rather than the poor areas (especially North of the Tyne). The W1/W2/W3/59/359/11/19/42/42A/S1/S2(Morpeth)/6/74/33/33A/553/K1/K2/M71/T2 all serve pretty much affluent areas throughout the whole of their routes.

I'd say the reason people don't complain is because they're empty as all the places they serve all have very high car usage or are using the Metro instead. There's only really the 41, T1, T3 and 335 which serve those type of places and even then the 335 serves some better areas on the Western side of the route.