Avon Buses

[Quackdave]

RE: Avon Buses

(12/05/2016 06:47)wirralbus Wrote:  So you are actually saying four services a day as opposed to an hourly service now is best for everybody ?

Whilst the timing of WFT437's comment may have been illogical, I think it has some validity with regard to deregulation in general.

You provided an example of a service that's better since deregulation. Fair enough; but I think you'd struggle to provide any evidence that it's better because of deregulation, especially given that Merseytravel had it as an hourly service before Avon commercialised it.

I think the concept of service coming first in the pre-deregulation era is epitomised by the major fire that Trent suffered at their Derby depot in 1976. Thirty-eight buses were destroyed and others were blocked in by the damage. This happened in the early hours of the morning; within hours, buses had been drafted in from as far away as the West Midlands, with the result that not a single journey was dropped.

Now let's wind forward a few decades, to when Supertravel ceased trading. Whole roads, that had no alternative service, went without buses for several days!

Progress??