Quote Originally Posted by TheDeeDon View Post
We have a minister of transport? Who knew.

Bus services cut to the bone, with more to come in the coming months and stagecoach ramping fares next week by 12%.

Driver shortages meaning services cancelled with no notice and ALWAYS on the coldest mornings or nights.

My £2.10 single fare in 2020, will hit the £3 mark next week.

I suppose I am one of life's failures for using public transport after a certain age.
Thatcher’s Bus Deregulation legislation from 1987 was promoted as a certain means of keeping fares low as competition meant choice for the traveller.

Until Salmond’s pal (and Clause 2A bigot) Souter ran all competition off the road by scandalous business practices before hiking the fares as his monopoly allowed. It was a bit odd that The Party’s 2007 Holyrood manifesto committed it to re-regulation, which had mysteriously vanished from the 2012 version. Souter’s Party donations amounting to around £1.2m must just have been coincidental.

Kevin will sort it all out though.