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Post by simonk82701 on Oct 3, 2023 21:27:27 GMT
Do you realise how a private company and commercial routes work? Any private company (in any industry) are out to make money “not compromises”. There have been several cuts to the core routes over the past few years (in terms of frequency), so I highly doubt they’d be looking at investing into door-2-door networks anytime soon! That’s like expecting Tesco to reduce stock levels of their top selling products and increasing lower selling product stock levels, so they’ve not got enough toilet roll to match usual demand, but they’ve got 100s of tubs of shoe polish to “compromise” incase 100s of people turned up for tubs of shoe polish one day. Yes, I do know how private companies and commercial routes work! I am not an idiot and don't appreciate being treated as one. When I said door to door, I meant services that go in to housing estates, like the 97 does around the Longley Farm Estate. Tesco are different to transport in that they do not receive tendership payments from local authorities, they are not following a pattern of what was once a public service. There is an argument that providing high network connectivity is better for overall profitability. If you can get a man to take the bus, instead of car, by providing a service that goes close to his home and provides convenience, you get him on the network and using the network for all of his travel needs. It's a way of reeling them in. If the nearest bus service is a mile walk away, infrequent and unreliable, then it's going to deter people from thinking of the bus for other journeys they make. Many of the nook and cranny estate exploring service are rendered by the council anyway, so your rant about bus companies being commercial is of limited relevance. Couldn't agree more. As I put in an earlier post, traffic control is also a problem. They would rather run 4 of the same bus together than lose millage. The industry has had money throne at it in recent times, with no improvement in service. |
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