(24 Jan 2025, 6:16 pm)R852 PRG wrote The overwhelming majority of those who have been shown the door for perceived ineptitude or being disagreeable have been operations staff with no oversight as to the painting of buses, and all of whom predated the branding initiatives introduced by Huntley.
Yeah that's fair wasn't aware of their roles obviously can't say much as I don't know what's happened so I'd just be speculating.
(24 Jan 2025, 6:25 pm)DeltaMan wrote That goes for senior management as well.
A owning group which has the likes of more reputable operations like Oxford Citybus, Southern Vectis and Brighton and Hove cannot look at what's going on at GNE and think "all is well there"
Guess it depends what the goal is, if it's to do managed decline as they see no future (there isn't one because of franchising) then you could argue they're doing a good job. I could see why they could go for that route as why bother spending money up here when by the time the growth impacts the balance sheet you'll lose the routes anyway or you could spend it in Brighton instead and reap the rewards.
Don't agree with that mind, but I could understand how that could happen.
It's hard to tell though as GNE is the only area impacted by franchising so there's nothing compare against. I heard from other forums that GoNorthWest went to the dogs when they found out they lost Queens Road though. Quite a few people commenting on it lately, mainly in comparison to Stagecoach who went out with a bang.