Dame Bryony Rudkin (it’s a matter of time, mark my words, so we better start using the title now) has been blessing us with her representative skills at the council and asked about the Wherstead Road route.
On a serious note we should not simply be asking why the route shut down, Suffolk will say it’s revenue and First said on Monday – I was there - that it was revenue AND punctuality. The latter makes it harder to entice them back as they are getting crucified on punctuality at the moment.
Most people are quite aware that as long as the country is effectively bankrupt we won’t get any subsidy for the route. What we need is collaboration to evenly space out the routes, which will mean that the residents of Wherstead Road will have a reasonably spaced bus service and the companies will have profitable routes. Sadly the European Commission has (surprise, surprise) totally inappropriate competition rules – and so this will need Suffolk County Council to act as an honest broker to see if we can get a simlar result as Oxford had. This is the issue
When I was looking for a new house I looked at some on Wherstead Road. I would not have a bus from the station for two hours during the evening rush hour.
European Competition policy on the buses is another round of bus regulation. It would be uncontroversial to deregulate this on the Wherstead Road.
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