• Rumbelows@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yeah this is absolutely needed… I grew up in Devon and remember when the bus services were privatised and taken away from the council… For about six months the prices dropped as two different companies competed, then one company won the other company folded and suddenly it was a monopoly… Prices tripled overnight and then over the next few years the number of services declined to the point where it was impossible to live in the village that I did and commute to work by bus

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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      3 months ago

      Yeah the change of law is a start.

      But the councils will need money to invest in replacibg lost services.

      Currently the political clkmate limits that.

      IE the gov dose t have the courage to force the inveatment.