(16 Jan 2022, 8:02 am)Storx wrote The better option imo is making operators irrelevant and all you need to do is sort out ticketing.
The bus companies should come together and come with a set of prices which they all follow with one day ticket between the whole lot and a set of zones which all operators follow. Then get arid of all single operator tickets (corridor tickets still allowed).
Now whoever is running them is irrelevant and the competition element doesn't really exist anymore since they compliment each other instead.
I don’t disagree
But why have different operators?
Take them all back into public ownership, an arms length company, with a profit for purpose ethos.