(21 Aug 2021, 8:25 pm)Ambassador wrote That’s kinda the point. The pandemic has changed life forever but it’s also been used as a wonderful excuse to downsize and make ‘efficiencies’ across the board in many businesses. Whilst there’s no sound industries have suffered it’s a marvellously convenient excuse.I think some changes would've happened albeit in a lesser form. At the end of the day, GNE will have the data at hand we don't even know about.
For example in Sleepy Village and Tanfield Village, many punters might have used the M8 to the Metrocentre then conmected with buses towards Newcastle although some do perhaps just use the M8 for the Metrocentre.
Don't forget, it won't potentially just be GNE making these sort of changes. Arriva Northumbria's PVR for just 'some' of the services pre-covid that come to the top of my head was 91x. If they took a similar approach to GNE, that PVR with a proper set of changes (not just temporary tweaks as seen) could easily be cut by 14x vehicles to 77x. Obviously some "improvements" would be seen and likewise, some customers would be p****d off.