First off offer improve offers and listen to the drivers see what they want and see if a compromise can be reached.

Scrap the branding it might have worked in 2006 but it gone to far now. Pick a livery and put all the buses in it that way it might help stabilise the network and buses can be moved between depots without more repaints first.

Be honest with the public. If they is problems don’t start long distance express services only to then scrap them when people will actually be wanting to use it. Go to emergency timetables if things are so bad and make it clear it due to driver shortages. In the meantime see if drivers can be loaned from elsewhere.

Stop messing about with services and give them a chance to work by promoting them. Don’t start a service then end it a few month later.