(26 Feb 2025, 11:15 pm)Economic505 wrote So we in Hartlepool have to put up with a commercially shite service. Christ, there’s not even any competition! I’d rather give Kim a chance than the moribund Houchen, who still had his head up Thatchers pussy .

Definitely not, but there's not enough funding to do a decent public network since it's all about keeping the cost as low as possible. The councils are skint, as it is around here, the last thing they need is to be subsidising a full bus network aswell since franchising backfired.

The UK badly needs to invest in public transport and treat it as a service rather than an expense like most EU countries do, especially with rail. No-one has invested in public transport in the UK since Thatcher properly imo.