(08 Sep 2021, 12:42 pm)Rob44 wrote Maybe Nexus spend to much money on subsidizing buses and an evening and on weekend so cant spend it on tec? I,m sure ive read on here what they pa a company to run services then no bus turns up!
It's an interesting point, but sadly one that is normally unclear due to the way Nexus present their accounts. Bus Services and Infrastructure are grouped together, when my view is they should be separate accounting lines. However, a recent FOI I read stated that it was around £13m spend (out of the £17m in the accounts) on secured services, but that includes scholars services.
https://www.nexus.org.uk/sites/default/f...signed.pdf
(08 Sep 2021, 1:04 pm)Andreos1 wrote For all the good and bad things that come out of Nexus House, I do think a lot of it is based on the issues caused by central government.
You highlight the issues around NESTI and smart ticketing, but if there was joined up thinking, joint bids and restrictions placed on those bids a few years back, maybe we wouldn't have had the umpteen pots of funding handed out to different operators and bodies and we wouldn't have had various different schemes rolled out in the interim.
I'd argue we are in this position, due to the total lack of foresight or joined up thinking.
Whether that is down to poor leadership or something else, is probably for another thread.
A decade plus of Central Government austerity absolutely has a lot to do with this, but our local authorities have their hands dirty too by carrying out their orders. Infrastructure such as this has a massive impact on people, and may make/break someone's experience of bus services, so the benefit far outweighs the cost. There seems to be plenty of capital funding found when it comes to vanity projects, such as new Council HQs in Durham and Sunderland, but very little when it comes to public transport.