High Peak

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RE: High Peak

(01/11/2015 10:49)Dentonian Wrote:  Long-term it is indeed illegal to run even an individual journey that does not break even or make an operating profit.

How exactly does that work?

Hypothetically let's say route R1 has an hourly commercial service from A to B and back using 1 driver and 1 bus and is 15 miles from the bus depot and there's no competition on the route. Overall route R1 makes a profit but the 14:00 service from A to B and 14:30 service from B to A individually are loss making. Could cutting those two services not make the route loss making? They'll be a bus and driver doing nothing for an hour and there could be a reduction in patronage on the remaining services (if people can't make a return journey at a convenient time they might not make the outward journey by bus either.)

Then to make it even more complicated if the 14:00 service is loss making but the 14:30 return working is profitable, does that mean technically the 14:00 service should be cancelled and the bus should run out-of-service instead?!