Let them drive SUVs!

[non sociopath skin]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/04/rural-buses-ticket-prices-threat

Those whom the gods wish to destroy ....

The Skin

[LeftishBrit]

1. Argh

There are too few buses serving many rural and semi-rural areas NOW; the assumption is too often that everyone has, or should have, a car. For people who cannot afford cars, or who cannot drive, this is a disastrous policy. Not to mention being bad for the environment.

[fedsron2us]

2. Typical Tories

They have not got a fucking clue about how half the population live.

Still at least the young rural unemployed can get round the problem by simply stealing cars

After all soon there wont be any coppers to stop them and the prisons will all be shut.

It will be anarchy in the Mews and Crescents

[Mark Baker]

3. These grants would not need to be so large if it wasn't for deregulation

Previously - and still in London - bus operators would be given a set of routes to run, some of which would be profitable, and would be expected to subsidise the unprofitable routes from those. Some state subsidy was still required in some cases, but not as much as now when the operators can run profitable routes anyway and demand enough subsidy on the unprofitable routes to make them profitable on their own.

(Of course, the old system is fairly similar to what's now used on the railways, and is rightly criticised there. I'd rather see all public transport nationalised).