(28 Jul 2022, 8:02 am)DeltaMan wrote I am due an optician appointment, what rose tinted glasses are you using?Too often I'm told on here that I'm cynical or I've encouraged people to jump on the bandwagon of anti-GNE bias.
So here I am, coming up with realistic strategies or ideas that operators could use to not only benefit the population of Washington and its surrounding environs, but also the shareholders (obviously it would need to be implemented correctly and not some half arsed approach).
And now I'm being told my views are being clouded by rose tinted spectacles for suggesting improvements to the network beyond 7pm!
Forgive me if I don't want to join you on that race to the bottom or embrace the 'we know best' attitude, the negativity and the stagnation that seems to permiate out of the bowels of the corporate ivory towers.
On a slightly connected note, I was following a Facebook thread about bus driver wage increases in Bristol. All sorts of suggestions about what could be done differently (all from a passenger perspective and totally valuable to any operator), yet one of the first on the scene was a guy who denounced other peoples knowledge of bus operations and admitted to working in the industry for 40 odd years.
A quick check on his bio showed the companies he had worked for. To be honest, if I was him, I'd not really shout about my senior roles working in a failing sector and how ineffective I'd been in halting or slowing the decline in routes, passenger numbers and a series of failed services.
But he knew more than each of the paying passengers. Apparently.
Any industry that has people with that sort of attitude, isn't going to sustain itself. As we see locally and at times, on this very forum. A shame.