(04 Oct 2013, 9:15 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote And back even in 2007, the loading data would have been available to GNE if they had wanted to look at it - maybe not as easily accessible, but they clearly would have had a means of monitoring loadings.
Even without fancy ticket machines, loadings can be analysed.
Nowt better than the human eye or interviewing drivers.
I wonder if decisions were made by the failure of drivers to 'press the button' in relation to day or month tickets? Particularly a Day Rover or Network Travelticket.
Even with a dodgy buzzfare machine, drivers would just wave a passenger on.
It doesn't seem to happen so much now - but I could go for ages without seeing my ticket or other passengers tickets, registered on the machine on boarding.