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In message , at 19:44:28 on Sat, 3
Jul 2010, Paul Terry remarked: AIUI, from comments in u.t.l. by Colin Rosentheil and others, the costs don't fall equitably on local authorities at present - in particular, those that are popular holiday resorts or tourist destinations end up paying for a lot of "out of area" visitors. They are allegedly "not compensated enough" for those out-of-area visitors. It doesn't seem very difficult to tweak the formulae a little to take account of this[1], so the bad guys here are those who don't want to do that. [1] Assuming that policy objectives are indeed for it to be completely neutral irrespective of the journeys being made. -- Roland Perry |
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"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 19:44:28 on Sat, 3 Jul 2010, Paul Terry remarked: AIUI, from comments in u.t.l. by Colin Rosentheil and others, the costs don't fall equitably on local authorities at present - in particular, those that are popular holiday resorts or tourist destinations end up paying for a lot of "out of area" visitors. They are allegedly "not compensated enough" for those out-of-area visitors. It doesn't seem very difficult to tweak the formulae a little to take account of this[1], so the bad guys here are those who don't want to do that. I can't remember where it is but there is at least one council who quite happily admits to making a profit on the current deal tim |
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(tim....) wrote: wrote in message ... In article , (tim....) wrote: "Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 19:44:28 on Sat, 3 Jul 2010, Paul Terry remarked: AIUI, from comments in u.t.l. by Colin Rosentheil and others, the costs don't fall equitably on local authorities at present - in particular, those that are popular holiday resorts or tourist destinations end up paying for a lot of "out of area" visitors. They are allegedly "not compensated enough" for those out-of-area visitors. It doesn't seem very difficult to tweak the formulae a little to take account of this[1], so the bad guys here are those who don't want to do that. I can't remember where it is but there is at least one council who quite happily admits to making a profit on the current deal Almost any council with few bus services. A local example is Fenland. I would have thought that was taking into account when working out the grant. It's the number of "non local" users that makes it go wrong. Mainly but not exclusively. Chesterfield has been utterly clobbered because it's the bus hub for its locality so loads of people from neighbouring districts change buses there and Chesterfield has to pay for their onward journeys. Fenland pays little because it has few bus services to carry its pensioners while Cambridge's bill is higher because there are far more buses here. However, South Cambs has to pay half the inwards park and ride journeys because some of the car parks are outside the City and in their district. The City has to pay all the return trips of course. -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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