tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425346921966365551.post5333507893104899620..comments2024-03-25T19:07:29.729+00:00Comments on Steve's Bus & Train Page: BB11 Hits The RoadSteve Whttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06852377706742868978noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425346921966365551.post-36231737213636156562016-01-01T21:54:35.583+00:002016-01-01T21:54:35.583+00:00London has been told to be self financing by 2019....London has been told to be self financing by 2019.The £2.6 billion subsidy is being ditched in 2018.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425346921966365551.post-40115313237198142482016-01-01T21:49:34.757+00:002016-01-01T21:49:34.757+00:00The concession scheme is the biggest culprit .Like...The concession scheme is the biggest culprit .Like it all not every year we go for meetings with local authorities .Its not good for small operators.Big groups can sustain from other areas.Go to places like Reading, Cardiff and Newport where there are municipal bus companies they have cut back on tendered services because the money for concession passes is not even enough to pay drivers wages.Thats why you find there is appettite for partnerships as opposed franchises.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2425346921966365551.post-84370017298046911652016-01-01T17:10:41.899+00:002016-01-01T17:10:41.899+00:00My New Year suggestion: the legislators and Regula...My New Year suggestion: the legislators and Regulators need to find a way to break up the conglomerates with their their monopolistic "national" operations and where they have an iron-fist grip on localised area services, to save the industry from its terminal decline. They will never compete on customer service, if they even have a clue what it is. We've replaced NBC, which was bad enough, with something worse. Perhaps a combination of limits on number of route licences held by a single operator in a town/locality, and vehicles registered at a single OC or under control of a single TM? And perhaps even the power to limit maximum frequencies to force competition. With an exception where service quality is effectively regulated by a Transport Authority (London-model contracted services). Thoughts? We all know who the culprits are but it's catching them that's the difficult bit.smurfukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04812247601237248526noreply@blogger.com