"Stephen" wrote in message ...
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For a flat fare it could provide Oxford Street shoppers with
the convenient service they are used to, allowing people to get on and off
directly outside the shop they want, or wherever the bus is stationary. It
could run up and down Oxford Street, turning round at Marble Arch and Centre
Point. You might even be able to hail the bus like a taxi. It could use a
conductor who would also fill the role of the tour guide on a sightseeing
bus, telling tourists when they have reached Selfridges for example. I think
a bus service like this would be very popular, and it would also be the only
bus you could board without a travelcard in Oxford Street, since all the
other routes now require a ticket from the machines in the street which
don't work. The buses could be sponsored by Oxford Street traders, making
them even more profitable, carrying advertisements for this month's event at
Selfridges or John Lewis etc. inside and outside. The conductor could even
hand out discount vouchers for particular shops, and the "Crystal Eyes"
video screen could show some of the same video advertisements shown on the
screens in store at shops like Top Shop & Selfridges. The idea sounds like a
winner to me, so (a) is anyone planning to do it, and (b) would they be
allowed to?

LT tried something like this (flat fare, Oxford St route, conductors
trained to call out stops, corpaorate sponsorship) in the early 1980s
called Shop Linker and run by red/yellow RMs. It was not a success,
lasting only a few months.

stephen

stephen