(27 May 2022, 10:42 pm)Andreos1 wrote Where's that like button?
It doesn’t exist - and you’re just as bad as him if you wanted to like a post where, again, my words had been twisted.
I suspect local authorities are being very realistic about the current situation, are well aware of the repercussions, and have been prepared for this for many months (and are likely to be prepared for what could come in the future with other operators too). They maybe aren’t quite as blinkered as members of this forum.
Other posters have commented in the past about what a waste some of the current secured bus services are and how they carry so few passengers that a taxi bus or DRT-style service would be more appropriate. They are like this because they have been for years, and they’ve had no excuse or reason to need to cut them back. Going back to my original point, if the local authority doesn’t have enough money in their budget to maintain much beyond their existing network of secured bus services, then they will have to cut their cloth with their own dross to pay for it. We have seen that already in North Tyneside with the withdrawal of some services and frequency changes of others, and I would argue they have got a much better network for it now. Regardless of your views on operators not running poor performing services on a commercial basis, I would like to think that everyone could agree it is better that the taxpayer funds services which do carry passengers, services which offer good value and passengers per pound.
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