(04 Apr 2021, 10:08 am)Andreos1 wrote And here we have it. A commercial operation, designed to make money, designed to open up new connections - not taking advantage of commercial opportunities.
It makes no sense at all to refuse walk up fares.
Then we see the patter about it being a 'different service', despite all the similarities to the current network.
It's either one or the other. Not something in-between, which has pretensions of grandeur but is ultimately something caught in-between.
Exactly agreed. Like personally it's a piss easy problem to fix.
Just have the service pick up only on the journey down between Newcastle and Middlesbrough. Work out how many tickets you've sold out let's say it's 5 people and the bus capacity is 30 (made up). Then the bus has a capacity of 25 for the rest of the journey. Same rules apply for heading up North but using the total day tickets sold outright from Newcastle to Scarborough. So if there's 18 tickets sold. Then there's 12 seats for people wanting a single to Middlesbrough / Newcastle.