Why Are NSW MOT Removing Highly In-Demand Services?

After missing my 7:30 611 bus to Macquarie from Seven Hills this morning by about 1 minute, I had to wait for much longer than 30 minutes for the next 611 service and when it did not actually stop to pick me up (I think it was too full) or even tell me why it could not pick me up or how long I should expect to wait for the next bus. Furious, I marched off to Nathan Rees' office where I was treated with less respect than I'd expect from a bus tyre speeding through a puddle of mud - the puddle of mud would probably have been more assistive.

Having missed the next bus, I hiked to the Hillsbus depot around the corner to complain about the bus which failed to stop and also discussed with them the recent changes to the timetable. I was advised that the 2 unofficial head-off buses that previously ran between trip 3 and 4, and then 5 minutes after trip 4 (often with all buses at capacity) would no longer be continued, let alone added to the new timetable.

This puts me at great unrest as I've been writing, calling and dropping in to complain/campaign/enquire to the MOT, Nathan Rees, Hillbus for well over a year in the hope that somebody will listen to me (or analyse the data collected by the ticket machines) and add more services for the 611 - into Macquarie in the mornings and back to Blacktown in the afternoons. If a bus company feels compelled to add more unofficial services to meet demand, and these extra services prove to be well and truly cost-efficient, I can't see how anybody can justify removing those extra services. Surely to any rational person the opposite would seem the obvious and only way to go - add _more_ services to encourage (or just incase fuel prices and other economic circumstances force) other people to leave their cars at home and take public transport.

At "peak hour" (or for any period of time where the bus is over 50% capacity), the 611 buses should run every 10 minutes - not every 30-50 minutes. The 630 route, which seems to carry an average of 5 passengers should generally be served by a minibus which would would have an additional benefit of making it much easier for the bus company to recruit drivers.

Mr Rees is saying that he can't afford to spend any more money on public transport because the state is in debt. I don't understand how he can afford not to. I don't care if NSW is $1 or $2 billion in debt by the time of the next election, I don't care how unpopular it makes him with the majority of people who currently take to the motorways in their private single occupancy vehicles, I don't care if it means that he or his party doesn't get re-elected.

What I do care about is the future of this city, state, Australia and our planet. What does Mr Rees care about?