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With the section of TfL that deals with buses being London Bus Services Limited. The control I said they don't have? Councils own 80% of the shares in NCT with Transdev owning the rest. It typically pays a dividend.

Is it an upcoming change? Or should it split and have an X51 or X53 continuing?

What happens if a child hasn't got the email and tries to get a bus home?

In Edinburgh, yes, at the moment. First did have quite a large presence there. In Nottingham, NCT are the largest operator, but many services are run by trentbarton as well as a handful of small operators. I lived there for 4 years before you could get bus passes valid on more than one bus...

There only seen to be two new services there (neither of them cross-town).

When the 900 Huddersfield to Hebden Bridge (re) started in the 90s, First won the tender. Part of the specifications were too have a small regular team on that route (in practice, the same driver except when he was on leave).

Nottingham, Blackpool and Edinburgh still tender routes, with them often not going to the municipal. All have had bus wars in the last 20 years. If you want to travel on another operator besides NCT, you'll pay an extra £1.20 for a day ticket.

I believe the current exact date is 'Spring 2027'. Manchester were a lot more transparent, so those who depend on certain routes had a pretty good idea what was happening to them.

So why have any notification for passengers at all?

I think it'd have to be like Nottingham or Edinburgh. The council owns a company that runs a lot of routes. Anything the council wanted to run would have to go out to tender. Under current legislation I don't think they could stop other operators running without franchising.

Not all areas allow discounted travel up to 16 and many more do not have half fare, just a reduced fare. In West Yorkshire, discounted fares apply up to 19, but are capped at £1.60 with adults at £2.50. In North Yorkshire, child fares are typically 2/3 of the uncapped adult fare (and are...

Though it seems odd they'd charge the customer more, rather than reducing it and charging to the government if it makes their fares more competitive.

In the past, they provided many links the railway didn't, but most of these have disappeared, many before serious competition. If that wasn't the point that the government was going to step in, I can't see them doing it now there's heavy competition.

It hadn't been deemed important enough for government to influence it at all since deregulation, why now? I'd love coaches to return to some of the routes I used to use, but I'm not sure what the argument would be for the government to fund them.

Is there? What is it?

The price of entry-level computers is already increasing. I'm sure the price of second-hand ones will also increase as more people are priced out of buying new ones. Storage and RAM are both getting more expensive after 50 years of both falling rapidly in price. I didn't mention posters...

By the early 90s the 14 had disappeared with the 12 and 13 both being every 15 minutes. I lived in Dunkirk in 1995-6 on the 13 route, but not far from the 12. NCT ran the tendered 310 on a Sunday then Nottingham - Castle Donnington - Loughborough which took the 13 route between Nottingham and...

I've seen both in Manchester before this scheme - Indeed there was a mass brawl in the bus I was on once. There's a small minority of ruffians there. Did you ask where they were going when they boarded? In many areas it does seem to be, as shown by quite a few of the previous replies

When I was 11 and up I used to love going on a bus and exploring - finding places I didn't know and exploring them. I'm not sure what the problem with wandering around is, in itself. From 14 I didn't even have to buy day tickets to do it as it was cheaper for my parents to get me a monthly...

Though the town of Nelson is named after a pub.