(22 Sep 2024, 11:24 am)DeltaMan wrote I suppose the question is.....will an operator recoup the extra 200k a year needed to stick an extra bus in the cycle to serve that area alone I don't think they would.
I dunno how much the 79 contract costs, but how would people feel if the local authority used the money for the 79 on sticking an extra bus on the 4 instead?
500 houses, a supermarket and a pub.
I'd hazard a guess there's 2000 people on the estate and at £2 a pop, it doesn't take long to hit the £200k you mention, even if only a quarter of the residents use a bus.
Assuming (here I go again), the bus takes them where they need to be.
I'd love to know the cost of the delays if they didn't use the bus and stuck with the car. Herrington Burn and Shiney Row roundabouts will be absolute chaos and there's no amount of bus priorities going to fix it.
(22 Sep 2024, 8:45 am)idiot wrote The 163 was the best as it saved walking up Success Road to the college ha... Mind if you left college or The Lambton Castle after 6 you waited an age for a bus.
Now there was a place!
Spent many an hour in there back in the day.