The Three Queens Visit

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RE: The Three Queens Visit

(29/03/2015 20:23)Dentonian Wrote:  I'm not sure how this would work. I don't think it would be lawful for Merseytravel as a public authority to "profit" from putting on extra buses. More to the point, the Operators would only run them if they, themselves kept the profits. There would then be the legal (and practical) ramifications of Merseytravel subsidising such services after the 2015/6 budget has been agreed. If money was spent on these, presumably other subsidised services would have to be cut over and above what would already be planned. They would also have to go out to competitive tender, so any such services would not necessarily be run by Arriva and/or Stagecoach.
Put simply, the only viable solution would be for Operators to run extra buses commercially.

Sadly that is most likely the case, but as I said in a previous post, the bus operators collectively are really the only option for moving people. If they want to continue with a 'business as usual' approach, they're going to cause issues for themselves, the public and the police.