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Boris Magic Wonder Bus builder announced
MIG wrote:
* Bring back conductors to help people in all sorts of ways and allow tickets to be sold on the bus all day and night. (The extra revenue would surely pay for them.) a) No it wouldn't, have you seriously done any maths on this? £24k a year + employers NI and other overheads * 8000 buses (or replace with how many buses you think should be conductor-equipped, but it'll be four figures). You're talking a lot of extra revenue attracted to pay for that lot, which then drives further bus purchases* and thus more crew etc. Basically the biggest single item of the bus operator's bill is the crew *even with just the driver*. b) Oyster The periodic call of 'bring back the conductor' is one of those nostalgic platitudes that curse us to second rate public transport in the UK. Seriously, if you find yourself on the same side of the argument as Quentin Letts it's a sign you've gone off the path of sanity big time. And now back to the oven. Tom * Note that Boris is reducing the bus network fairly substantially up to 2018, when you take into account the extra mileage worked by bendy replacements and the former projected rise in mileage turning into a reduction. |
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