Merseytravel: Bus service Consultations

[mr t]

RE: Merseytravel: Bus service Consultations

(18/02/2019 18:32)mrd97 Wrote:  Forgive me for sounding naive but as Merseytravel only replaced a small amount of Avon’s services, did they not save money by not replacing the rest? Most of not all of Avon’s services were partially subsidised to my knowledge. Services which were not replaced at all include 10/10A, 107/207/208 124/124/492/495 and 145. Some others were only replaced by funding small diversions on already commercial services.

They’ve also replaced the 84/5 (PVR 2), 77/88 (PVR 2), 80/82/83A (PVR 4) with 73 (PVR 1), 80/82 (PVR 1) and the 16/17 extension (extra 2 buses). And a small diversion on the 22, 38 and 418, which altogether roughly is half the number of buses required than previously. So they’ve surely saved a sgnificant amount of money here, unless I am missing something obvious. What little money they have they don’t half waste it

The cost of the replacement routes was sigificantly higher than paid for the Avon routes as they were mostly only de minimus. To replace every single previous service ike for like woould have cost extra £1million