(24 Aug 2023, 5:24 pm)Unber43 wrote But 300 passengers a week is hardly sustainable, say it operates from 7:10-19:00 12 hours, 6 days a week is 72 journeys across the week thats an average of 4 people per round trip (presumable a round trip takes less than an hour)
What's sustainable? A community that travels to work in outlying areas, that's increasing or an operator deciding there's not enough money in it?
There was similar conversation about loss leaders feeding in to the wider network and sustaining the profitability of the core routes.
I'd argue that if it wasn't for those 4 people, there's 4 more cars clogging up and delaying buses on the approach to Glasgow or Edinburgh every single hour of the day.
Multiply that by x number of villages/communities and all of a sudden there's 25 additional cars blocking the road. Every single hour of the day.
Theres all this patter about how 1 bus can take 75 cars off the road.
Aye, it might. If the 75 people in cars, all lived on the main bus route.
Because they don't, then the argument is pointless.
This bus is making a huge difference to those 300 people. That's the key point here.