High Peak

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RE: High Peak

(31/10/2015 21:05)Dentonian Wrote:  Stepping Hill to Glossop remains, its just the short lived Stockport extension that's gone. There is some uncertainty about the timetable at the moment, as no sooner had Publicity been produced for the 25 October changes, than High Peak revised/cut the morning peak timetable wef 16 November. Lo and behold publicity for this was on the verge of going to print, when Derbyshire CC decided they needed to intervene. So watch this space....
OTOH, if you are/were planning to travel on 394 (or indeed 199 or TP) off-peak, be warned delays caused by the Airport Relief Road works at Hazel Grove are taking their toll.

High peak had planned to drop two early morning journeys from Glossop on the 394 claiming they carried very few passengers and were not commercially viable to continue to operate. A Glossop school caretaker who used the 06.25 journey to get to work in Marple started a bit of a local campaign to save the journeys. High peak claimed there was no way the journeys could continue commercially. DCC state that due to the savage cuts they are unable to provide funding and then low and behold, MP Andrew Bingham gets involved, gives it a mention on his blog and all of a sudden the 06.25 journey is reinstated.

Now I've seen the letter Centrebus have sent to the campaigning caretaker and it bares no mention of DCC providing funding for this journey and suggests that they have simply decided to continue to operate one of the two journeys.
How can a bus journey suddenly go from being not commercially viable to the opposite? And isn't it illegal to operate a service/journey that dosen't pay for itself?