Blackpool Tramways

[iMarkeh]

RE: Blackpool Tramways

(06/07/2020 21:16)wirralbus Wrote:  Do not forget during the height of the pandemic that the trams will have to be maintained by at Starr Gate and any potential drop in staffing numbers can have a detrimental effect on what sort of service could be available .

They could in theory have had enough trams to not run all the way to Fleetwood , its hypothetical as they withdrew the service during the outbreak.

All I can say is that all other light rail operations coped. Blackpool could have coped. It's just an easy thing to do though because they have the duplicate bus, just scrap 1 mode and reduce it down and when you look at the cost difference of route 1 against the trams, the tram probably comes off worse. That should be counteracted though by increased passengers per vehicle and increased general usage (since more people travel on a tram over a bus even if on the same route.

The trams would have got the Gov payout as well if they had kept running longer.