Robin May wrote:

I've seen a few things about this route over the past few months and
everything I've read makes it seem as if this is being treated the
way
bus routes are when someone wants to get rid of them. The strategy
seems to involve making the route as useless and inconvenient as
possible (reduce frequency, get rid of useful destinations or stops)
so
that people stop using it and then the bosses can say "see, there's
no
call for this route" and axe it altogether. I don't feel particularly

strongly about the route but it certainly looks as if this is what is

being done. Am I right?

I don't know about that, but it does seem that the #726, which is an
old legacy route back in the Green Line days, has been chipped away at
over the years, for whatever reasons:
http://website.lineone.net/~londonbusphotos/726.htm