Thursday, 7 September 2017
MAP: On The Buses with Doctor Beeching
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2 comments:
The big difference between Beeching and MAP is that internal politics didn't impact MAP in anything like the way it did the railway during the Beeching Cuts (and post-Beeching, for that matter). Everyone knows a railway line which closed despite being more viable than some of the survivors, but which had fallen foul of Inter-Regional politics within BR; MAP didn't have that sort of impact on NBC's subsidiaries, for all it took out a lot of routes.
I think it's fair to say that without MAP (or VNP as it was when started by Midland Red), neither Lincolnshire Road Car nor Midland Red would have survived to see deregulation, and Midland Red quite possibly wouldn't even have survived to be split up.
I don't think we ever realised just how parlous the finances of these companies were, with LRC teetering on bankruptcy throughout the 1970s and MROC rapidly joining them after BMMO's loss of the profitable Black Country work in 1973.
We all bemoan the sell out to the THC of BET's assets but in reality they got out at the right time. As with the railways it's a shame politicians in this country don't recognise the the social and environmental value of public transport.
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