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I think that congestion will be partly responsible for the McGills public Inquiry It seems unfair when they have the car park which is the M8 every day to contend with. Sometimes the 901/906 crawl in all the way from the airport in the morning
Good point, how big is their present network? With their previous network of 400 vehicles that would require a replacement of 25 vehicles per annum assuming a life of 16 years or an annual investment of around £4m on last profit of £108k the maths don't seem too hot
Lothian need a very large profitable network devoid of any competition between Bkackridge on North Lanarkshire / West Lothian border to Dunbar to pay for the trams
I don't think there is a problem with their financial Standing even though they took a dividend of £3.3m when they made only £108k after tax
this equates to 73p profit per week over their 400 vehicles Its hardly worth doing and they will soon need to have 60% of their fleet in Glasgow eur o 6...
The all Scotland scheme exceeded its budget of £202M during the thirteenth 4 weekly payment so operators lost a large part of that payment so 24/7 isn't viable
Perhaps new Traffic Commisioner showing what she is made of Looks as if it's maintenance and operations according to the sections of the 1981_and 1985 transport acts
maybe the new T C has read online comments too such as trustpilot with many having very poor experience of that firm and only giving one star because you cannot award no stars
Mcgill s are at a public inquiry on 30th July on 4 counts
Also james Easdale , Colin Napier and Ralph Roberts called individually to Transport Manager PI regarding their good repute on same day
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