(22 Sep 2024, 7:17 pm)DeltaMan wrote One estate with 500 homes is not going to generate enough revenue to cover the cost of even one extra bus to serve it, nevermind multiple buses to other different locations. Great Park has been built for over a decade and not a single service is fully commercial.
What's the bar set at before a commercial operator will show interest; a small city?
I don't blame you for dismissing it as a revenue stream, despite doing so at a time when not a single plot has been sold, because that's largely the attitude that most operators have gone with for years. Maybe we can look at their accounts and how their business has shrank during that time, as a barometer of how successful that approach has been.
Like I say, it's no wonder so many areas are looking at other options than to rely on these operators.