On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:00:57 -0800 (PST), MIG
wrote:

That sort of thing is sometimes done to rail services and it isn't in
the intrinsic nature of buses to stop early, run once a day or
anything else, any more than it's in the intrinsic nature of monorails
to run frequently all night. They run when someone runs them.

And buses are typically far cheaper to run. The trouble is that there
is a reluctance to subsidise them, so the service operated is (unlike
rail) often either purely commercial or, if subsidised, on a
lowest-cost tender.

This results in services of appalling quality such as the Milton
Keynes evening routes which are tendered purely on lowest cost, for
which the cowboy operators tend to come forward.

Neil

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