(21 Feb 2022, 8:39 am)Storx wrote Gannon is head of NECA or whatever it's called these days. It's a Nexus / NECA / Council issue though, it's mental how far the North East is behind pretty much every other area. It doesn't help that Nexus has serious conflicts of interest in running the Metro at the same time and runs it as competition rather than integrating with the buses.It was the Tories that privatised the buses , forcing Metro into competition. Those old enough will remember the integrated transport system prior to 1986. In those days , there weren’t flashy liveries on buses , instead we had a regular and extensive service , Day and night. Today, we have flashy liveries (GNE especially ) hiding a massively shrinking service. This started well before Covid.
Network One should have been abolished years ago and merged with Pop and it needs to be regionwide not just Tyne and Wear.
As we have seem on the Railways, privatisation has failed, hence why they are coming back towards state control. Only a matter of time for the policy to be extended to buses.