(05 Sep 2024, 11:22 pm)Jimmi wrote Having travelled in some of the areas featured, the experience is often much more positive than that which is up here , which just feels like the towel was thrown in ages ago and now feels as if everything is just surviving rather than thriving.

Years ago, I'd done some work down in Oxfordshire, Hampshire or somewhere down south. 
Did the whole trip on public transport and got some gricing in when I had a spare few hours.
Outlined it all on this forum and spoke about how everything worked like clockwork (even the rural bits) for each stage - until I got off the train at Durham and needed a 20/20a/X20 off the bus station. 

The OP of this thread didn't seem to appreciate how it all fell down at the last leg. For some strange reason we never officially found out why... 

But getting back to the Bib, there's some quite valid concerns about the state of local transport, but it's definitely not a new thing.
It's always been pretty sh!te, it's just there's no titivations papering over the cracks like there was previously.