How bus use has changed in London & in big cities outside of London since deregulation. (from which London was exempt).

From @thomasforth (posted at the other place)

Its quite an extraordinary 'natural experiment' - from which we can draw the conclusion (without too much difficulty) that #privatisation is not the way forward if #busses are to be part of the #greentransition

(and don't get me started on #London exceptionalism....)

@ChrisMayLA6

Could you assume that the rest of England was sacrificed to the corporates in exchange for London?

Why does everything have to be 'for profit'? The gov could incentive commuter trips?

@rs_hole

That's certainly one way of looking at it, and would (I think) fit the evidence to hand....