(19 Sep 2014, 4:05 pm)Drifter60 wrote Well the article says the company operate them on a commercial basis? If the buses are that far apart at 7:57am then 8:19am if the earlier one is the X31 no wonder people aren't getting on it if the one twenty minutes later arrives to school in time.
Yes, I had heard prior to reading the article - that the services were all commercial, rather than contracted/organised by the school or DCC.
Robert may be able to answer this next bit - are the kids allowed into the school on arriving (ie the doors are open from 8am) or are kids told to wait until the bell goes before entering the building?
This may have a bearing on kids wanting to wait in a warm/dry bus station having a bit crack on, rather than hang about at school - bored and under the control of teaching staff.
The ticket data is also an interesting one.
No idea if it still happens, but there were always kids which sneaked onto a bus amongst the queues back in the day.
Appreciate those numbers won't be huge - but there may be discrepancies in ticket data as a result of kids sneaking on.