Outside of London we were gifted the 'marvels' of deregulation in the 80's though and the prices & service are now pretty bad. I remember watching the minister

Outside of London we were gifted the 'marvels' of deregulation in the 80's though and the prices & service are now pretty bad. I remember watching the minister responsible at the time espousing how marvellous deregulation was going to be and how he'd been inspired after seeing two empty buses going over Tower Bridge - yet London largely escaped despite being the inspiration. Count yourselves lucky ;-) This Guardian piece has some numbers : http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/26/bus-deregulation-outside-london-failure-thinktank http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/26/bus-deregulat...