Arriva's Cost Cutting

[Barney]

RE: Arrivas Cost Cutting

(08/07/2016 17:28)R879 HRF Wrote:  The whole cut 5 buses to reduce costs doesn't sound right, surely its more a case of cut anything which isn't meeting profit margins, or tighten up slackness in timetables where possible to try and reduce the PVR by maybe 1 or 2 buses to save running an extra bus. In most cases on the Wirral at least the running times are already stretched and other than pulling off routes and trips theres not much they can cut back.

Its correct in the case of Birkenhead's route 2, stagecoach are dominant and the majority use stagecoach's cheaper fares, so id imagine they are making a loss hence why its taken off, but saying they are going to axe 5 buses from each depot to save money regardless doesn't sound right to me, especially on very profitable routes.

We all need to remember, as we approach its 30th birthday, that bus deregulation was a means by which central government could reduce its financial support to bus services by putting them into the private sector. The ideology then, and even more so now, is that the private sector exists to make a profit. As the locals in the shire counties know only too well, if it's not profitable it doesn't run. Just be thankful you don't live in the neighboring counties of Lancashire or Cheshire.