(29 Jul 2021, 10:07 pm)Ambassador wrote that market is dwindling though. Your base remains working class and lower middles who don’t or can’t drive to get to work and that doesn’t change or grow.
The commercial success of the £1 fares and Seasider/Toon Tour shows the leisure opportunity is there, how long the post staycation boom lasts is another but as football restarts if you can tempt a few thousand Newcastle fans onto your bus for a quid, there’s profit to be had
I know what your saying but surely those will still need to get to work at the call centre etc which usually would be at the business parks and you'll always have stuff like Amazon etc which amazingly you can't actually get any public transport to in the case of the one at Durham but that's a different subject altogether.
Remember there's only 19 football games a season though so it doesn't help for the other 344'ish days (with Christmas etc). Honestly I'm not sure what the balance is tbh, just not 12 buses or whatever it is to Cobalt at peak times which is overkill.
Mind I do think in the next year so we will see a lot of businesses moving around to new places which are smaller if they're working from home - why rent an office with 2,000 desks when you have 200 people working there. After then it'll be easier to tell whether the business parks need all the services.