(24 Aug 2022, 9:45 pm)Ambassador wrote His legacy will be…helped grow the fortunes of a small local pub in a railway quarter that doesn’t actually exist and made enthusiasts very very happy.

Absolutely screwed up the running a bus side of things before he was push….erm found a new opportunity.  Can’t help but think  when it comes to past glories and his CV that ‘running the loss making embarrassment of the Go Ahead empire’ will be in a smaller font, perhaps even Arial size 8 in italics.

I wish him luck at lumo, it’s a solid product and does what it says on the tin, it really needs no tinkering.

THe only thing imo which it needs is more earlier and later services. I think the first one gets into London around 10/11am which is pretty useless for people commuting for work etc. 

There should be some going direct from Edinburgh/Newcastle Non-Stop to London to be there for 8:20/10:20/12:20 etc every 2 hours. I think it would make it more appealing, a higher frequency would definitely make me use it more, if ever if I was ever to go to London currently I would use LNER. 

But leaking about MG, I do wish him well, he's always been someone to drive (whether that was 1-4 times or more) he always did, he was always quite active on social media helping people which is great. Personally I was a massive fan of MG untill after the main pandemic was over, all Frequencies were cut, the massive Sept which I thought were good, then clearly nothing of that stuck, including the drivers shortage, then the replacement of all Sunderland fleet with buses 6 years older and no real investment or adapting (35 & 55) no real investment. Then the constant flip flop of wrong allocations, buses changing paint as nothing could stick, the baffling situation at consett, service frequency halved. 

Then came the July 24th when we all thought it was over this is what GNE needed, after reassurance of driver shortage being lessened that didn't happen, GNE won61 contrats including a PVR 23 bus, then Sept 3rd Changes, frequency was halved/reduced on busy routes, route temp cancelled. Temp reductions. How many of these will be permanent Any good faith including myself I had in MG had been soured, like Ambassador said I do wish him the best, he is a great person. 

One word to describe GNE over the past 12 months, Shambles.