(07 Apr 2025, 6:27 pm)Andreos1 wrote If SNE were that bothered about the route and have been letting NECA know about its predicament for 2 or 3 years, then this cancellation is on them.
They're blaming NINO increases, but they have had many a year to sort out the ultimate issue (which is patronage and bums on seats) via marketing, route amendments, pricing offers etc.
They've chose not to and I do not think it should be down to NECA to fill the gaps left by a private company unwilling or unable to do something about it.
I didn't necessarily mean subsidise what exists but at a bare minimum they could take the route as it is and just contract it to the lowest bidder.
As it stands, they aren't so despite their words, they clearly aren't that bothered about whole swathes of Roker losing their only bus, and Thompson Road and Thorney Close Road going down to one bus per day, not to mention the links that are going as I mentioned previously.
IMO she's showing she's all style and no substance. She says she won't stop until buses are back in public control but she's barely even started.