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Where do you get the idea that Cheshire East have paid for a multi-operator ticket? As far as I am aware there is no such example of a council-funded multi operator ticket anywhere. Money is usually pooled and distributed by the local authority and sometimes they take a cut for admin costs, but...

The local authority can approach an operator directly in certain circumstances to pay them to enhance frequencies on existing commercial services without the need to go out to tender.

And this is how commercial bus services work. The operator will run the maximum service level they feel able to based on assumptions of revenue (as doing anything else is very expensive), and the local authority can step in if they feel more is required. As I’ve stated previously, it’s a free...

But you’re still not being particularly specific. What makes them ‘poor quality’? How in particular is the network badly designed? Delaine have had a century to hone their business, and much of it has remained fairly consistent. Yes, they are a fine example of an operator, but not every...

What’s with the constant negativity? ‘Managed decline’ - do you really think this is the case, particularly as several new and newer vehicles have been acquired over recent week? D&G is a business and by nature businesses don’t do that, although I’m sure you will come up with some bizarre...

But with bus tyres they are not the same as car tyres. Usually spares are kept at the depot already on the rims and the whole wheel is swapped, and in either case the wheel has to be re-torqued before the bus can go back out, and then re-torqued again at intervals over the following days. Not as...

I travelled on one of their FlixBus services to London a few months ago and it was one of the most terrifying experiences I’ve had on public transport, with both of the drivers seeming to think they were boy racers - tailgating cars, flashing lights at the vehicle in front, undertaking, slamming...

313 Potters Bar to Chingford 370 Romford to Lakeside 405 Croydon to Redhill 428 Erith to Bluewater 492 Sidcup to Bluewater There’s probably quite a few more given the likes of Loughton and Chigwell are not part of Greater London, even though they have TfL providing bus services.

The Uttoxeter 406 contract has been awarded to Select.

Ticketer have a new model of their large ticket machine available later this year that will accept Amex.

Some of the later versions had daytime running lights… https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Midland_Classic_1_-_JB14_MCL_%2822266339131%29.jpg

I agree with Daniel. There are several decent transport-related courses at universities across the UK, and larger operators even offer graduate trainee programmes which are a good way into the industry. Even if you can get into an office job without becoming a driver I recommend getting your...

Find another with a roof and cut it off? I think a bus with the roof already removed (by whatever means) is much easier.

As long as the journey a passenger makes is from two points a minimum of 15 miles apart the service doesn’t need to be registered. You could have multiple pickups in one area and multiple drop offs in another area as long as passengers don’t make the ‘local’ journey between two stops close to...

The bus only Wayfarer is available as both a paper ticket and smartcard.

McGills and Xplore Dundee both use Ticketer for vehicle tracking while Stagecoach use VIX ERG which behaves very differently, which explains the differences in data quality. Ticketer doesn’t allow public tracking when buses are out of service, unless the company uses a special service number to...

BSOG is also paid on dead mileage. It can only be claimed on commercial services and not local authority tenders.

You lose credibility by ending with the word ‘assumption’ when your original comment was basically written as if it were a fact. During current uncertain times ‘assumptions’ can be very harmful given people’s livelihoods are involved.

Why would D&G’s conditions be inferior? Do you have any evidence to back that up?

Optare Solos have, in many cases, the same engine and gearbox as larger buses such as the Versa or Metrocity. The argument of ‘not working very well mechanically’ is utterly ridiculous and very much the comment of someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about!