(26 May 2022, 7:30 am)Andreos1 wrote Combination of staff availability and life expired vehicles/no replacement vehicles imo. Coupled with financial pressures to reduce costs.Surely, it's pressure from Go Ahead Group - you only need to read their recent new "Business Strategy", point 1 second bullet:
But the official line is passenger numbers and that's cannon fodder for paying passengers, tax payers and political voices.
New strategy: “The Next Billion Journeys”:
Three strategic priorities have been identified, aimed at delivering profitable and sustainable growth in existing and new markets:
- Performance improvement
- Enhance the basics by focusing on operational excellence, particularly through performance management, standardisation of processes and digitalisation
- Turnaround underperforming operating companies
- Reduce the zero-emission breakeven point to accelerate fleet decarbonisation
- Enhance the basics by focusing on operational excellence, particularly through performance management, standardisation of processes and digitalisation
Go Ahead Next Billion Journeys
Looking at the publicly available annual Go North East accounts it was clearly an underperforming company pre covid.
Have you noticed that now the big government bailouts have stopped, the repainting of buses has slowed to a trickle?