Stagecoach North East

[markydh]

RE: Stagecoach North East

(17/08/2012 17:46)kuyoyo Wrote:  As for the suggestion that Stagecoach will only operate profitable services, that's not something that should be said in a public forum for reasons I think we are all familiar with given recent discussions elsewhere.

Balderdash. It's a widely achknowledged fact that for all bus companies, profit is king (especially within the upper echelons of Stagecoach North East where innovation and speculating to accumulate has been a foreign concept for many, many years). The X63 may not be raking in the money (one of the reasons for the fact it now runs every 15 minutes rather than every 12) but if it was a break even route, there's no way it would run that often off-peak. Which brings me to my next point. Like a lot of services of it's ilk, it has massive differences between peak and off-peak flows. I've seen many a bus pull away from New Bridge Street almost completely full.