(31 Mar 2021, 2:26 pm)RobinHood wrote If it is registered as a local bus service, it must accept ENCTS?
(31 Mar 2021, 5:40 pm)Rapidsnap wrote It might be because it exceeds the maximum distance between stops that means passes aren't valid, maybe between Boro and Whitby there's no intermediate stops.
Not necessarily, if they're going down the route of applying the tourism exemption under the Travel concessions (eligible services) (amendment) order 2009:
"1.10 The 2009 amendment order explicitly excludes the following types of services from the mandatory concession, these are:
- services on which the majority of seats can be reserved in advance of travel (such as coaches)
- services that are intended to run for a period of less than 6 consecutive weeks
- services operated primarily for the purposes of tourism or because of the historical interest of the vehicle
- bus substitution (rail replacement) services
- services where the fare charged by the operator has a special amenity element"