(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?Often wonder if it's those beneath him in the commercial depts to be honest.
A new MD can come in, but if they don't know the area nor the history and are being told things by the planners and commercial teams...
'nah, that won't work'. 'why would someone want to go there?'. 'It's always been like that.' Why change it?'
Regardless of any other schemes, ideas or preconceptions that might have worked in another part of the country.
(16 May 2022, 2:56 pm)Unber43 wrote Cancelling the 55 is a massive mistakeNot looking at the routes that ran alongside it was the initial error.
Basic stuff that they only got round to fixing. But probably too late.
(16 May 2022, 2:31 pm)streetdeckfan wrote Can't help but agree with you.Isn't that what all of 'the ten percent club' members do?
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