(08 Apr 2025, 5:02 am)F114TML wrote 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.
But the multi-billion pound organisation owning SNE could quite easily take the hit, absorb NINO increases or adapt the route, so the taxpayer and residents in those areas don't lose out.
As they're not looking at the internal controllables and are firmly placing the blame at the door of the external factors, I think we all know where their priorities lie.
As I've said, they've issued the warnings for 2 years. They've chosen to do absolutely nothing about it themselves.