(23 Feb 2022, 10:24 pm)Andreos1 wrote https://twitter.com/BethIsobelRobso/stat...4sfJZONhgg&s=19 more on the reduction in bus services.Biggest change in 35 years seems somewhat OTT. Yes these are pretty savage cuts but from what I see Nexus have done a pretty decent job of mitigating and in some cases improving links despite the operators interest solely in profit. I'm not sure these cuts are that much greater in magnitude than some we saw a few years ago for example across the Stagecoach networks in Sunderland and Newcastle, or indeed even as some of the GNE changes back when we were getting fit for the future to create a sustainable network six months ago!
The media has been quiet on the state of the network for too long now, but thinking about the survey that was shared the other day, it looks like there is going to be some sort of concerted campaign across the North.
I just hope they direct their attention in the most appropriate direction.
I do think it should be much more visible when journeys or entire services are being run under subsidy rather than commercially (and this particularly applies where the commercial operator takes public money to run journeys on the same service in the evenings that don't give them enough profit to cream off for shareholders).