(15 Aug 2018, 7:25 pm)S830OFT wrote Is that Sunshine Coach PCL have DDA Compliant? As I noticed it is Step Entrance. And if it is allocated to routes alike the 15 it may be hard for the elderly and disabled passengers to board.
PSVAR/DDA doesn’t apply to vehicles with less than 22 passenger capacity.
I’m torn on opinion on PCL. Clearly their vehicles and presentation standards are not ideal but neither is the owner on a yacht in the Maldives whilst the pensioners of Croquetdale suffer. PCL are a marginal operator working scraps of services not profitable enough for Arriva to bother. Certainly, the output of Spirit Buses was much better, but clearly unsustainable. The issue here, I feel, is government policy on supported services more generally.
What is unacceptable, however, is dropping journies randomly on such infrequent routes. Again, much of the blame lies with PCL here, but maybe if they, or others, were paid a fair amount for the carriage of passengers it would be a better story?
