North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

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RE: North West Bus Service Changes due to Coronavirus outbreak

(13/05/2020 16:48)iMarkeh Wrote:  They should have firstly given more notice of the change. Welsh Gov and Scotland gave people a few days notice for the garden centres. The UK got told on Sunday that more people could return to work (due to start today, Wednesday) but people got confused and so loads of people returned to work on Monday. This lead to bus operators not being able to sort buses and drivers out over the space of the few hours and the consequential overcrowding.

It's not that anyone wanted the buses to be packed, it all happened with too little notice so no one could plan.

I'd certainly agree that more notice should've been given to various organisations including public transport operators. As an example, it was announced last week that the trains would ramp up frequencies from May 18th. You might have thought if the Government were planning on getting more people out to work, the two things would've been co-ordinated. The Government didn't have to announce this publically, but there should've been consultation with operators.

However, the confusion about when to go back to work was due to Boris Johnson's ambiguous statement on Sunday night. He simply referred to changes "this week" which started with people going back to work. The specific reference to Wednesday was about the changes to exercise.