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tim.... · July 4th 10, 08:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 19:44:28 on
Sat, 3 Jul 2010, Paul Terry remarked:
AIUI, from comments in u.t.l. by Colin Rosentheil and others, the
costs don't fall equitably on local authorities at present - in
particular, those that are popular holiday resorts or tourist
destinations end up paying for a lot of "out of area" visitors.

They are allegedly "not compensated enough" for those out-of-area
visitors. It doesn't seem very difficult to tweak the formulae a
little to take account of this[1], so the bad guys here are those
who don't want to do that.

I can't remember where it is but there is at least one council who
quite happily admits to making a profit on the current deal

Almost any council with few bus services. A local example is Fenland.

I would have thought that was taking into account when working out the
grant.

It's the number of "non local" users that makes it go wrong.

tim