(31 May 2021, 2:54 pm)OrangeArrow49 wrote Well, I would agree with you, other than if there are services exclusively for students to use, then shouldn't kids be excluded from normal public services? Just seems unfair they have 2 choices, and ordinary passengers have just one. This means a public bus could be full, and yet a scholars bus could (in theory) be completely empty!
Yes, very yes!
Having said that, 90% of the time I took the public bus to school because other students at my school were, how do I put this kindly, scum.
Seriously though, the whole point of a scholars service is to get students to school, not to add extra capacity to an operators commercial operation.
If the public bus is full, then the operator should sort that out rather than filling up a scholars bus, taking up seats that schools/LAs have already paid for.