(10 Aug 2025, 9:50 pm)Shrek wrote Another thing that Nexus should take into account when giving out contracts imo. If it will mean a service gets cut, give it to somebody else. 

I get that Arriva will have made it cheaper by pulling that services, but it does show why franchising is popular with the public.

Couldn't agree more. It's not good to incentivise cutting services by rewarding them with public money to continue to run it.

As we've seen in the past, operators tend to change their tune, facing the prospect of another 'on their patch'