(16 Apr 2014, 8:15 pm)Dan wrote I may be wrong, but I think you've misunderstood slightly what I meant with this idea...

The idea behind it would be that anyone could post about anything in that region, rather than being limited to a set of particular operators. So instead of having 'Cumbria & North Lancashire' as the sub-forum with all of the independent companies in it (as well as Stagecoach), we'd just have the one thread for all bus-related discussion in that region. I can't imagine this would cause massive issues as the 'Elsewhere' section of the forum isn't particularly busy anyway.

Although I love how 'clean' a forum is when it's full of sub-forums, Liam could rant for England about how it's completely non user-friendly. I think just separating by region would allow this section of the forum to be a little more user-friendly though, without using sub-forums.

I think there should be some sub-forums, if only to break things up and help the discussion (like in the example I gave earlier).
If you don't, there will be all sorts of random info floating about, which for someone catching up - is going to be hard to read or keep on top of.