(14 Nov 2020, 10:43 pm)Ambassador wrote This whole conversation just shows flawed the whole BSOG system is and it will no doubt go at some point in the near future replaced by an equally inexplicable system that props up and generates even more cash for our billion pound making transport groups.....and those down on their luck small local businesses like Go Ahead, Arriva and Stagecoach. Indeed.

But, but... it ensures we see regular commercial services on an evening and means the likes of Phoenix, A-Line, GCT, Classic, Stanley, JH or whoever else, didnt and dont need to step in and offer services under some sort of taxpayer subsidy both now and for the last 34 years.
Sticking a bus on which gets an extra 6p per km on top of the existing 38p p/l grant and the avl/smart card uplift obviously makes all the difference :shrug:

As you say, it's flawed. Flawed on so many levels.