(16 Sep 2021, 7:50 pm)Adrian wrote I just can't see people being prepared to make a bus journey to a car, to do a bit driving, and then make the bus journey back. It'll be a bit of a come down to be honest, having had a couple hours of freedom of going where you want and not having sit through Karen on her phone the whole journey, telling her mate about the latest drama in her life.

If anything it's likely to make folk more likely to bite the bullet and get a private car. I saw the following in the GNE press release: 

"and examples of things like blended home-office working where full-time car ownership is now even less financially viable for many people." 

I'd have thought it was the opposite. Same income, lower expenses on fuel etc, so surely it's more attractive for folk to look into car ownership for the few days they do go into the office and as a better alternative for days out. Regardless, as a long term business move I don't see how beneficial it is for a bus company to be dangling the carrot of a private car (especially at the moment where it's a lottery to see if your bus is even going to turn up).