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.

It should be noted the government never said those who can't work from home should not be working. Boris made it clear that those who cannot work from home can still travel to work during the lockdown (not just key workers.) However, the rail industry started producing what they called 'key worker timetables', while only children of key workers could still send their children to school and there was no guidance in place for non-key workers about best working practice, which led to people thinking that non-key workers aren't supposed to be commuting.

I presume Boris didn't make the announcement last week because the government thought if they did people would do more than they should over the Bank Holiday weekend but he dropped a hint about relaxing exercise restrictions at PMQs last week, which defeated the point.