It seems the back in the 90s, the idea that by running bus services as a business rather than a public service was that it would make the operators buck their ideas up and want to run the best service possible to avoid losing the route. I read somewhere that prior to privatisation, only 4 out of 5 buses turned up in London. Unfortunately, the Arriva service where I live is an infrequent disgrace for the size of the villages it serves, and because the depot’s on the other side of town, services are often cancelled because they can’t be arsed. Luckily for them, because the areas are out of range for the other operators in the city, there’s no worry of competition, so they don’t care that people are being left stranded and having to seek alternative transport.
I think Londons buses are starting to fail the public; it needs to be run as a business as the current system is losing a lot of money and TFL is having problems funding them so it is cutting hundreds of routes, perhaps they should be run commercially or at least allow private operators to run their own commercial services
you are deluded, deregulation never works, its these private companies who causing the problem TFL is an issue because of Khan. and the stupid climate change and new green buses.
@@wwof1646Deregulation never works? I guess it’s failed in most towns and cities around the country then. Brighton, Guildford, Nottingham, Reading, Norwich, Oxford…
I live in the USA, in a A city of 400,000 people. I I’ve always supported public transit being better for people who don’t have cars, even though I’ve had a car since I was 16 years old. I rode the bus for the first time in my life yesterday. Let me tell you, the schedules are horrible. Not only does a 15 minute Drive take 45 minutes if you’re lucky, it usually takes about an hour and 20 minutes. And usually you have to transfer buses a couple times, but that very well might be normal. Here’s an even bigger problem, sometimes getting a bus to take you back Home is so difficult because it’s so infrequent. I don’t know how people deal with not having transportation. I mentioned this because I saw a few people in the comments say that the bus should be able to make a profit. And that would be great and all, but I don’t know how much that would actually cost. When you have people working at minimum wage that need to use the bus, I’m OK with taxpayer dollars going to help out. Quite frankly I kind of wish for climate change reasons that gas prices would be taxed much higher or maybe some other general tax based on the miles you drive or something. And then make public transit much more frequent. Then you turn a dedicated road lane to be only for the buses, that way they can avoid rush-hour traffic and everything else. Then it would be much better and efficient to ride a bus.
Fascinating and depressing. They knew then where it was going but they let it happen.
It seems the back in the 90s, the idea that by running bus services as a business rather than a public service was that it would make the operators buck their ideas up and want to run the best service possible to avoid losing the route. I read somewhere that prior to privatisation, only 4 out of 5 buses turned up in London.
Unfortunately, the Arriva service where I live is an infrequent disgrace for the size of the villages it serves, and because the depot’s on the other side of town, services are often cancelled because they can’t be arsed. Luckily for them, because the areas are out of range for the other operators in the city, there’s no worry of competition, so they don’t care that people are being left stranded and having to seek alternative transport.
I think Londons buses are starting to fail the public; it needs to be run as a business as the current system is losing a lot of money and TFL is having problems funding them so it is cutting hundreds of routes, perhaps they should be run commercially or at least allow private operators to run their own commercial services
you are deluded, deregulation never works, its these private companies who causing the problem TFL is an issue because of Khan. and the stupid climate change and new green buses.
@@wwof1646Deregulation never works? I guess it’s failed in most towns and cities around the country then. Brighton, Guildford, Nottingham, Reading, Norwich, Oxford…
The only good thing about all this was at least it got rid of that sicky orangey/yellow London Buses bullseye
I live in the USA, in a A city of 400,000 people. I I’ve always supported public transit being better for people who don’t have cars, even though I’ve had a car since I was 16 years old. I rode the bus for the first time in my life yesterday. Let me tell you, the schedules are horrible. Not only does a 15 minute Drive take 45 minutes if you’re lucky, it usually takes about an hour and 20 minutes. And usually you have to transfer buses a couple times, but that very well might be normal. Here’s an even bigger problem, sometimes getting a bus to take you back Home is so difficult because it’s so infrequent. I don’t know how people deal with not having transportation.
I mentioned this because I saw a few people in the comments say that the bus should be able to make a profit. And that would be great and all, but I don’t know how much that would actually cost. When you have people working at minimum wage that need to use the bus, I’m OK with taxpayer dollars going to help out. Quite frankly I kind of wish for climate change reasons that gas prices would be taxed much higher or maybe some other general tax based on the miles you drive or something. And then make public transit much more frequent. Then you turn a dedicated road lane to be only for the buses, that way they can avoid rush-hour traffic and everything else. Then it would be much better and efficient to ride a bus.
Yeap they’re still crap today
NextSound imma tell you your wrong but your rights say your allowed an opinion so you keep it :)
@@coastliner7009 Well they wouldn’t be called Slavecoach for a reason
I tend to like stagecoach having experienced them around the country, I found them a lot better than Arriva but not better than Go Ahead
Dunno why i think this tactic is so intresting