(17 Aug 2018, 6:08 pm)Tom wrote I think PCL get £51,000 a year for the 15/16 (I remembered that being quoted somewhere). So say they operate it 300 days a year at an estimate, that's like £170 a day. I don't know how that compares to other secured routes, but it doesn't seem much at all.
So say they receive £170 per day. If they used a small conventional bus and 15MPG from it, that would be around £50 in fuel alone. Plus say £90 on 10 hours labour for the driver? £30 to cover overheads of running a bus, I doubt that would even come close to covering a lease on something like the E200 Spirit were using. Is it any wonder the service is in the state it's in?