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Old February 11th 19, 06:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Arthur Figgis Arthur Figgis is offline
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Default Kingston to Eastbourne bus

On 10/02/2019 21:32, Robin wrote:

You may find it hard to believe but some people enjoy sitting on a bus
and looking at what's passing by outside the window; then spending a few
hours at the seaside (or wherever); then sitting on the bus on the way
back looking out the windows again (or if it's dark talking about what
they've seen and done).Â* And they'd rather do that - very cheaply - than
spend more money on a faster route by means of a series of journeys by
rail.Â* There may not be very many such people these days.Â* But it
doesn't take very many to make a service which runs so rarely
potentially profitable, especially if Go Ahead are making use of assets
which would otherwise not be in use.


I can see that that works for some services (hello Yorkshire Coastliner,
or the often packed summer buses along the coast), but I'm amazed there
are enough people in Kingston and Sutton wanting to do it.


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