(09 Feb 2025, 3:05 pm)Andreos1 wrote If course there has.
Whether it's one, two or 44 people - there's now changes and additional costs for those people.

I know people living in Washington who have relied on it to get to teaching roles in Sunderland that lie not far off Ryhope Road. 
If they get the bus now, what was one journey is now two buses and a change. And at additional cost. 
A change which isn't exactly ideal with all of the cancellations. The inconvenience doesn't really encourage them to use the bus on a daily basis and buy a longer term ticket either.

Appreciate that's only one example. But as we both know, there will be others.

Operational convenience vs passenger convenience only tends to result in one outcome.