In Northern Ireland there is only one bus company (except from some novelty tourbuses) which is Translink who also run the railways. Their service is decent but they only started taking contactless like two or three years ago
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Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Odd, Cardiff Bus in Wales has existed for ages (competing with Stagecoach). Maybe this was England only?
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mjr@infosec.pub 1 week ago
No, Cardiff Bus survived after the 1980s deregulation. All that was needed to survive was never to have elected a council that chose to sell it for a quick buck, like most did, in Wales as well as England, or have appointed managers that failed to compete with private operators like Stageroach and Worst.
If they’d sold it or gone bust, Cardiff Council wouldn’t have been allowed to start more bus services themselves again.