I don't understand why you are so consistently negative?
First off why is it negative to say, Lothian should have some stability for the next few months? ie let give everyone time to get used to everything so people can get comfortable, instead of causing further confusion. All I see is If you don't agree with the Lothian way, your just bad/ negative/ hater/ just dont know what your on about. For me to say I don't expect any more changes for a few months is bad thing to say? That would be rather positive?
buslad1988 has made a few other points while typing this, however most routes will have they main daytime service reinstated on 12th, and surly they should be left alone for the rest of the year, as he said, nightlife, tourism, uni’s aren’t up to full strength. so leave them be and let it be stable.
I have also complained about First back in the day in this post, but this is been edited out by the mods, this would have highlighted how I was not impressed with poor operations.
It isn't Negative when your disappointed at what should have been A: A very easy challenge and B: Complete mis-management of what has happened over the last two years. Where are the Green arrows? Why wasn't X38 started in Aug 2018, Its failures have outweighed its successes and it's wasted so much money for what? and still will not give passengers a proper weekly ticket. IF the company had budget for such big losses ( the goal posts keep on moving on that point) then proper weekly ticket shouldn't have been an issues. Everytime you highlight issues with routes that get started you get shot down for being " bad/ negative/ hater/ just dont know what your on about" even if you give proper explanation as to why its not a good move. Sad truth is people don't want to believe Lothain has fault and made mistakes, instead people should be saying yes there a problem lets makes changes to get it better.
The good times are gone, and lothian has now joined the rest of the scottish bus industry in having to tighten its belt, its taken long enough. They didn't change the management because oh well it's time for someone else to have some fun, Hall was pushed out because books were not adding up and too much money was being wasted. They will be further fleet selloffs, there will be further minor trimming to the network, ( remember this has already started before covid) They could shut Seafield and move it newbridge, you could shut deans and move nearly all the operations to back Newbridge, longstone and for the no43 - Central, the way things are going.
I dont believe Lothian should be praise for carbon copying other companies routes, that doesn't make them a leader that just makes the a follower and that isn't the Lothian way.
The Simple fact is Lothian should have done alot better over the last two years, its not all sunshine and roses. Complacency is bad, it's wrong and I want Lothian just like First and Stagecoach to be a strong competitive operation, its a hard pill to swallow but it needs it. I hope LCB will continue, but it needs a complete SEA CHANGE: get the X40 council tender, integrating more it's networks to other parts of Edinburgh, etc etc plenty of good ideas out there.
Or should we just say change LCB sogan to Lothian country buses " we copy First bus, it's the best we can do"