Talks of Liverpools bus network being "council" run
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RE: Talks of Liverpools bus network being "council" run
(02/11/2014 19:52)Dentonian Wrote: The whole idea of Deregulation was that Operators should NOT run commercial services if they felt they wouldn't be profitable. One of tenets of Deregulation was that cross-subsidy is "evil". Over the years, Public Holiday ops have been a bit of a joke. It took years to convince Stagecoach that even a straight Sunday service should be viable - and longer still for First and Arriva. At one time, GMPTE (as was) started to stipulate Public Holiday timetables on Sunday contracts, but for some reason they backed down, so some smaller Operators in particular still work on the basis that nobody uses buses on Public Holidays. I don't know. I used the 216 last Boxing Day to get into Manchester and it was fairly busy. I use a mega rider but I'm sure they were charging flat fares of £4 instead of singles. So I would imagine it's quite profitable for them. Don't forget there's been a huge shift in the last few years. Not only from a retail point of view but a lot of shift/factory workers work bank holidays and Boxing Day is near enough a normal day. Hattersley is a huge council estate although it's debatable whether car ownership is lower than in Glossop where incidentally there is two large council estates, Gamesley and Hadfield. Stagecoach's line has always been that some areas don't warrent a service on Boxing Day and New Year's Day, but how do they actually know that? |
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