(Yesterday, 6:41 pm)Storx wrote Let's not kid ourselves here, they won't have looked at the network one bit imo, beyond what they usually do.

Why would they? It's years away and there's no staff to do it as far as I'm aware anyway.

Getting a transport authority would be a good start, never mind anything else with Nexus, the Northumberland Transport Planning and the Durham Transport Planning all scrapped at the same time. 

The remainder of Nexus can be split in it's own little part becoming the Metro / Ferry operator, only, as the operations should be split imo.

Where's your awareness of their staffing levels coming from? They've a whole department within the transport portfolio at NECA that are responsible for Bus Reform, who reports to the Assistant Director of Transport Strategy at the authority, and they've been actively recruiting into that team since 2024.

If you add to this that the July 2024 minutes included approval of an £8.5m budget across three financial years for the development of the FSA, including staffing and consultancy services, so I'd be really interested to know where you're getting that they have 'no staff to do it' from?

The draft FSA (which is already written) will have to include details of services that are included, so again, I'm not sure where you're getting that they won't have looked at the network from?