Stan Drews
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The 57 did not become part of the 22/23, other that the part of the route shared by some workings with the 56. The PVR for 56 was 1 and 2 for the 142/143 so no vehicle savings. NYCCs proposed savings were to turn them over to Minibuses. Concensus elsewhere is that the 22/23 are a Transdev invention not down to NYCC, who incidentally at short notice set up a demand responsive service to cover the 23 exclusive route due to the limited service provided by Transdev.
I'm not really bothered about the consensus elsewhere, as I prefer to just stick to the facts.
NYCC had to make further savings for the 16/17 year, and the current 22/23 and 1A services provide that with one less PVR than the old 1A/56/57/142/142 did. Therefore NYCC were able to achieve their savings for these routes with minimal impact on users of the old services.
Believe or not, many operators and local authorities are able to work quite well in partnership for the overall good of the travelling public.