(17 Aug 2021, 9:34 pm)DeltaMan wrote I am sure nobody could accuse Reading Buses of being held hostage by shareholders, corporate higher ups or running cap in hand to the council for money (imagine that...)
And yet MG made some hefty cuts to services around an area called Caversham towards the end of his time down there, including whole Sunday services being ditched. With no shareholders to worry about, I wonder why those changes were made? Do you think it may be the same reason the changes up north are being made?
Didn't MG state that those services to Caversham were going to be split in to a mixture of growth and cost saving measures?
Rather than continue to market and look to grow the services.
https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/people...aled-back/
Indeed, they even started encouraging punters in parts of the area to use the TT services that pass through on their way to/from Oxford.
About a year later, further changes were made due to traffic issues.
https://twitter.com/MartijnGNE/status/96...53056?s=19
I wonder if it was the good folk of Caversham and the public transport not taking them to/from where they needed to be?
I'm thinking Kennet Island and towards the M4, with the vast numbers of employers around there and where it is easier to drive in from one side of the river and out of Reading on the other, than it is changing buses in the town centre.