Almost everything is just broken:
- Buses being reduced left, right and centre.
- Councils celebrating money they already had which will recover above questionably.
- 3 private bus operators who are as innovate as a typewriter.
- 3 public rail operators (Northern Rail, Metro and TPE) who are cancelling trains left right and centre.
- No crisis planning, such as buses running into Newcastle today, to just be delayed and no planning.
- Buses being cancelled left, right and centre for the best part of 2 year now.
- Buses not fit for purpose, in particular Arriva's Solos and the Stagecoach's MAN 200's with no plan to get shot of them with daily breakdowns.
- Depot closures from both Arriva and GNE which have both resulted in serious issues which are still a problem at both (Riverside cancellations, Arriva routes being removed altogether).
- The same cronies in charge of high positions who have questionable ability, Gannon and Tobyn Hughes in particular - what exactly have these 2 achieved?
- Strikes at Stagecoach, very nearly strikes at Arriva and GNE.
- Nexus, as usual, wasting money on things like glass windows at Byker which were removed because of vandalism.
- Metro extremely unsafe in the evenings, overran by feral kids.
We must have the worst public transport in the country for an urban area, you look at places like Edinburgh and Manchester and the problems are nowhere near the issues up here lately and is it just me who has absolutely no hope that it'll change regardless to whether it's franchised or not as both options are as poor as each other because of who are in charge?
It's sad times but public transport is unusable, unless you have a fetish for delays, cancellations and wasting time.