(19 May 2026, 9:29 am)pbjd wrote 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.

Tbf those things used to be a complete con.

Just a tick box exercise but written in a way that they'll always be accepted.

ie. asking whether it should serve a hospital on a route for people in Ashington (who don't use the bus) by cutting the core of the route down to hourly sort of stuff. Then when the hourly part moans they can go, 'well people agreed, so stfu'.

The old, not serve somewhere to make it more reliable was quite common aswell. Yeah of course everyone outside the small hamlet your cutting out is going to agree... It caused a lot of the crap network we've got nowadays imo.