Carousel Buses (Go-Ahead group)

[Mgameing123]

But someone has to pay for that extra capacity, if you have sufficient off peak work you can spread the cost to make it viable but if you only have a single trip in each direction that needs the extra bus and you don't have enough viable off-peak work to cover you need (taking a relatively low day cost for a bus) about 70 people paying £3 per trip (and school kids are often travelling on discounts so income is some cases may well be below £3 per person per trip) which is difficult to achieve. There are ways to massage these numbers, and operators may take different views on how to cost a peak duplicate depending on the nature of the work, to come out with a slightly different calculation depending on circumstances but at the end of the day even a dozen passengers left behind on one trip isn't going to be a viable demand to meet.

Yeah I do get that but I can’t see how it’s good for business to leave passengers behind as over time these passengers will find other modes of transport.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

Yeah I do get that but I can’t see how it’s good for business to leave passengers behind as over time these passengers will find other modes of transport.

Simply because if it costs more to provide the service than the revenue you get, it's pretty bad business.