(03 Feb 2024, 9:04 am)Unber43 wrote Between the 21/X10/X21 there is Flexability, 6333, 3 Angles and 6377.

Theres pretty much always atleast 1 X10 off, one-four X21, and 3 21's. However a lot of this is due to incompetent allocating, such as putting them on school routes or the 57.

6333 is Washington based now.

(03 Feb 2024, 1:34 pm)Andreos1 wrote Wasted money imo. 
Said so at the time and still believe it now. 
Before Covid, there was a chance to revise the network. 
In the months following, there was another opportunity to revise it. Probably the best opportunity there ever was. 

Instead, he continued to titivate and assume that would bring passengers back.
Totally forgetting the change in passenger habits, journeys or many other factors that came in to play. 

The titivations could have came about after the network was reassessed. Assuming that's what passengers actually wanted and not what people thought they wanted.

To be fair, he done the complete opposite and cut everything wayyy too early. Middle of a pandemic and they're more arsed about cramming bums on seats, no wonder some people didn't return as they were literally scared and why would you now want to use a bus which was every 15 minutes and now every 30 minutes, if it's the X45/X46 with the fare (at the time) near 30% more expensive for the priviledge.

Credit to Stagecoach and Arriva for holding off, bar a few more sensible changes ie. dropping buses from every 20 to 30 but upgrading the capacity at the same time. Seems to paid off, in most areas (not all ofc).