(02 Jan 2025, 8:33 am)Storx wrote Surely that can't be true either way anyway. 

I can't imagine someone in the Great Park is going to say, 'no you can't run buses here, we'd rather pay someone else to run a substantially worse service'. 

That just doesn't make sense to me. I'm sure if GNE said they'd like to run a service commercially they'd be over the moon.

What can’t be true, that they aren’t allowed to run services on the west side of the bridge? As a result of the roads on that side not yet being adopted by NCC, I believe it is correct - and it’s certainly what the councillor (iirc) has said in response to some of the pensioners asking why GNE can’t run their service too. As the services need to be subsidised at this stage, the consortium can choose who can run on their roads. 

From the information that I’ve seen posted on the local groups, the Q3 was nearly commercially viable pre-pandemic. I’m assuming due to a combination of the pandemic, and GNEs mismanagement of the service, that was no longer the case by 2024. When announcing the X47/49 changes, it was stated that the consortium believed that they were the changes most likely to become commercially viable as the S106 money used to fund the services is due to run out relatively soon.