Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18

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RE: Christmas & New Year Services 2017/18

(07/12/2017 19:18)wirralbus Wrote:  Its the case that some areas notably in the former PTE areas do have a very reasonable offering on Boxing Day daytime and other areas notably the Shire Counties have hardly any service at all.

If it wasnt for the operators running the services commercially these days on Boxing day knowing they will still make a profit on them there would be NO service at all as Merseytravel and TfGM are increasingly short of money to fund the services any more .

For many years after deregulation the major operators claimed that it was unprofitable to run services over the Christmas period but as soon as the subsidies began to dry up these services became viable. The truth is that if there is public money available for private enterprise it will be gratefully received and accepted.