The thing I noticed, viewing in 2021 is there's a ridiculous number of companies running buses...I think they were deregulated in the late 80s...in 2021 two big companies run buses ..first and Stagecoach
What an ugly period the early days of dereg were, and as we in the industry predicted back then, it's ended up in the hands of a few monoliths, serving shareholders not passengers. Same for all privatised public services. Government sanctioned theft.
I grew up in Sheffield in the '70s and the bus service was brilliant, just a pity that they had scrapped the comprehensive tram service a decade or so earlier.
Well said, complete shambles today. How they dare call it a service nowadays I'll never know. "Passenger numbers are down! We must raise ticket prices and cut routes!!"
Are you joking dude? Cars are the only way to get anywhere on time? Have you tried driving to Sheffield city centre? There's no where more anti car. LTNs, one ways, no entries, bus gates, concrete blocks and bollards at every twist and turn...... Leopold St, how do you get to it, then where does it go? I'll give you a challenge, Surrey St, never mind trying to get to it without getting a ticket, get out of it, it's blocked off at Fargate, so turn yourself round, turn left, down past the Crucible, turn right? No!!! Turn left, go down to the Park Square roundabout, all the way round it and come back, all if you originally wanted to turn right onto Arundel Gate. Little London rd and Edgedale rd blocked off so Abbeydale rd and Chesterfield rd are now stood still all day, roads blocked off everywhere 👍
Yes, efforts, is a word I've heard banded around, looking at the Wicker for example here, it looks so much better now, doesn't it? Not. How anyone, walking through the university bred technocrat run and designed city centre with decent shops gone replaced by Turkish barbers, vape shops and Asian mobile phone shops, bollards, bus gates and concrete blocks, with beggars and people zombified on spice laid out, can say it's better now , is beyond me, regeneration, for whom? Regeneration, urbanisation, gentrification, social cleansing 👍
