(19 May 2026, 12:06 pm)Storx wrote 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.

You know what springs to mind when you say this?, Arriva's great axing of 2010, i moved away, granted only for 6 months, when i left the network was as i remembered it for years before that, 343, 355, M55 etc, i came back and it was X this, X that, 355 to Whitley Bay had gone, M55 was now the 55