(18 May 2026, 10:34 pm)peter wrote Agreed, 

While this new day and age where GNE consult on changes before they go ahead with them is admirable, personally I think it only really needs to apply for more substantive changes or significant reductions. I guess mentioning potential improvements is useful too (the X1 to Haswell Plough may not have happened cause ultimately nobody cared), although I think people are more likely to respond and say don't do something than they are to write-in and say yes go ahead.

Having said all that, asking people about retiming journeys by a couple minutes is a bit of an overkill - in the grand scheme of things its not going to have that significant of a change on people's lives.

GNE consulting on ‘proposed’ changes is not a meeting, in the 00s and early 10s they regularly had consultations out for potential service and even allocation changes, they seemed to disappear once major service changes became a quarterly event for the company.