(16 May 2022, 2:15 pm)Ambassador wrote I think I had a fairly positive view of Martijn when he came into GNE but I'm increasingly of the view he's a 'peacetime PM' as they say and absolutely not suited to the current challenging environment. He's tried and failed, let someone else have a go?
Can't help but agree with you.
His strategy seems to nothing more than give his old mate Stenning a fortune and spending his time on Twitter congratulating other operators
I do honestly think that had COVID not happened then we would have seen passenger numbers continue to increase. The mistake I think they've made is continuing on with the same strategy rather than changing course. Now, I don't know what course that would be, but I'm not the MD!
I think what we need is to figure out where people actually want to go. It's all well and good picking two places and complaining because there isn't a bus between them, but how do we actually know people want to travel between them?
We need someone like Nexus to commission a piece of research to really figure this out before they start cutting routes left right and centre. It would be difficult and expensive, but it would be worth it