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Drivers telling passengers to use the emergency buttons...
"Roland Perry" wrote in message ... In message , at 13:07:46 on Mon, 26 Nov 2012, John Williamson remarked: The contract is drawn up in accordance with other rules. Quite possibly, but all the rules/reasons can be addressed individually, until common sense prevails. Your version being common sense in your opinion, but not in the opinion of anyone actually involved in running these services. That's the problem The rules are the rules, and are not, in general, negotiable. Adding a couple of minutes into the schedule to accommodate the intermediate stops (on the original route, we aren't asking for any detours) is negotiable. And if we believe that a rail replacement bus is not allowed to stop at a bus stop, it could stop 30ft further down the road (subject to safety case), so that's another one gone. The insurance and the contract with the bus company could be extended to include stops en-route and the NCoC changed to mention that "set down only" BoJ at approved intermediate stops was allowed on bustituted routes. Which I think just leaves negotiating with the traffic commissioners about whether the bus is in competition with local stage buses, and that's where common sense says "no" - logistically it's not a regular service it's just a series of one-off tour buses. But if the RSS does stop at bus stops, then it IS in competition, effectively, with the Local Bus Service. You would have caught a local bus back from the station to the bus stop at the end of the street. Now because you used the RSS as stopper, that business has been denied to the local bus service. Marginal, I know: but multiply it by all the other Rolands out there......... -- PR |
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