And TFGM should not fund out of there area bus routes.
The 12 Cheshire bus routes the council can no longer afford
Local authority bosses in the East they are under huge financial pressure and can no longer subsidise the journeyswww.cheshire-live.co.uk
I agree that routes fully out of their area they shouldn't fund - but if the alternative is a bus terminates in 'the middle of nowhere' because the better termination point is just over the border, then actually it may make sense for them to fund it on the grounds they'll recover the cost by farebox revenue.
An example where such thinking isn't happening is in Hertfordshire - the long standing 44 runs cross country between Luton and Stevenage. It's been an HCC contract since the mid 80s - the latest round of changes mean it runs from Stevenage to Peters Green (a tiny village) and back. Yet Luton itself is only about 4 miles further but over the border into Beds - yet Stevenage is about 10 miles away. So for people in Peters Green, they'd probably be more likely to head to Luton for shopping etc, yet the bus only goes to Stevenage now on most of its journeys, so fewer people will use it.