(14 Dec 2024, 2:09 pm)DeltaMan wrote It's in black and white. Some fares will be less than £2.50. it's therefore not a flat fare.
If it's a subsidy to the operator, what discount are they seeing? You can say they benefit from some supposed increase in users, but a benefit is not a subsidy and it's misleading to say that.
You'd previously said "They've said themselves that some fares will be £2.30," - which is it?
A subsidy doesn't have to be a monetary discount. They're being paid a generous sum of money, and in return are able to market their fares at £2. I don't know how you can't see that as a benefit to the operator?
If the scheme was so bad and offered them nothing, they could quite easily opt out of it. There was an option right from the start to choose not to participate.