Was D-Reg pointless?

[Mayneway]

RE: Was D-Reg pointless?
My own thoughts on this are that in the early days yes it was chaotic but it worked. There was compititon, yes there were cowboys but as a teenager living on the outskirts of Manchester, if I was going into town I had the choice of several operators all offering very low fares.
But I do agree with other comments that it seems to have gone full circle and were kind of at a stalemate in that some towns become virtually cut off after 7pm.

There seemed to be a lot of things that wernt thought through before de-reg, a lot of loopholes that operators exploited -and still do, just look at UK North in Manchester and more recently GHA.
Could it be argued that the transport act it's self meant that de-reg wouldn't work. You have the situation in a lot of areas where big operators run frequent daytime and Saturday services but after 6/7pm and on Sundays where once there was maybe an hourly or half hourly subsidised service, due to budget cuts there starting to disappear and the operators are bound not to run anything commercially because the transport act stipulates that each journey on a commercially registered service must turn a profit. I'm
Certain this didn't happen with some operators seemingly running carrying fresh air.