Quote Originally Posted by 57vintage View Post
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.
Aye, the great deregulation of buses. Another one of the witches many great ideas that we only now see the real impact of her destruction, like so many other things.

Private companies get to pick the services they run and no obligation to run non profitable services.

Took the public service out of public service vehicles.

Trains are even worse, you have to sell a kidney to afford train fares.