Ever since municipal undertakings were dissolved the overwhelming majority of our towns and cities lost a piece of their local identity and it was obvious that eventually a small number of big players would takeover virtually everything. Liverpool, along with most of the countries towns and cities, should have insisted that, as in London, the buses remained predominantly one colour. At least you would retain a little bit of local identity. Now there is nothing to distinguish a Liverpool bus from a Watford bus. At least when the transport was run by the local municipality we had some say in it.