New Buses Orders

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RE: New Buses Orders

(17/03/2013 13:00)First Class Wrote:  I think £7 to travel from Meols Cop to Chester via Liverpool AND return again by train, and to have unlimited use of buses and ferries is excellent value.

You make my point well though. People would ditch the Saveaway and buy operator specific tickets, giving them 100% of the revenue, and making their services more profitable. In relation to this thread, more profitable services are likely to result in better capacity amongst other things. At the moment, busy does not equal profit.

I don't think there is anything wrong with cheaper operator specific tickets and higher priced multi-mode ones like the Saveaway. If you want more, you should pay more.

Thank goodness we have the set up we have then and the current people at the helm. If you think £7 to travel from Meols Cop to Chester represents good value compared with Bolton to Wilmslow via Manchester and the sheer glut of potential travel options then I really don't know what to say. £4.80 is about what you should expect to pay for a ticket of its type. You have these travelcards in order to encourage people to use public transport, not dissuade them. Your policy is akin to scrapping the Saveaway entirely and thus inconveniencing passengers even further (as if they need any more inconvenience).

Be that as it may, this discussion is irrelevant to the number of deckers Liverpool currently has. If it's a profitability issue, I'm sure that would have been said by either of the major operators by now. Some straight answers on the current lack of capacity is required though.