(11 Dec 2021, 11:02 am)Rob44 wrote the scholars service the served my school back in the day didn't really follow a commercial route at the time. it was actually an amalgamation of 2 services ran by northumbria at the time. I do agree that a bus running empty costing £300 per day certainly inst a good way to spend money when other things at being cut

For us, the public service was actually faster than the scholars as it didn't go round the estates, one of the many reasons I never used it. 
The only scholars service I didn't mind getting was the late bus back as it was usually empty and I'd have the whole upper deck to myself