Pricing
Pricing
(05 Nov 2014, 10:20 am)eezypeazy Which is precisely why it's so difficult to shift motorists out of their cars and back on to buses - it's a mix of price, the level of bus services, and the value (utility) of cheap, modern cars. No matter how cheap the bus fare, or how frequent the service, it can rarely compete with the convenience of having your own set of wheels outside your front door.
What tips it over in the favour of public transport is other factors: eg., it costs £12 to park for a day at the Centre for Life in Newcastle if you're catching a train. Or London-style congestion charging - that's now £11.50 a day, you've got to be desperate to take a car into central London!
(05 Nov 2014, 10:20 am)eezypeazy Which is precisely why it's so difficult to shift motorists out of their cars and back on to buses - it's a mix of price, the level of bus services, and the value (utility) of cheap, modern cars. No matter how cheap the bus fare, or how frequent the service, it can rarely compete with the convenience of having your own set of wheels outside your front door.
What tips it over in the favour of public transport is other factors: eg., it costs £12 to park for a day at the Centre for Life in Newcastle if you're catching a train. Or London-style congestion charging - that's now £11.50 a day, you've got to be desperate to take a car into central London!
