On 23/11/2012 15:04, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at
13:59:40 on Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Portsmouth Rider
remarked:

In short: the rail replacement service is NOT a Local Bus Service and
does not operate under the licences issued by the Traffic
Commissioners as a Local Bus Service, and a driver who takes it upon
himself to provide such a service without lawful excuse is breaking
the law.

That's a new excuse. Up to now I'd been trying to debunk the concept
that their insurance would be invalid because they were dropping people
off at highly dangerous bus stops that apparently only regular buses can
safely drop people at. Or that stopping to do so will trash their schedule.

As usual you are exagerating and introducing highly emotive language
that wasn't in the original. Are you moonlighting as a tabloid journalist/


As for running a faux-local-bus-service, I doubt if anyone on such buses
wants to be there. They'd rather be on the train that was cancelled.

It's ridiculous to expect someone might be hovering at the railway
station on the off-chance of a bustitution that might go past their house.

Not if they are aware if the bustitution and know the route it will have
to take.


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Graeme Wall
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