More Arriva London cascades?

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RE: More Arriva London cascades?

(16/03/2014 23:09)Raawwwrrr! Wrote:  You'd be surprised by how much a single run on a school service can make, Halton Transport are a great example of this and run many contracted and non-contracted services. Widnes isn't exactly the best example to use, but then again, the buses you are talking about are being used in similar towns of Southport, St Helens and Bolton. Halton genuinely pull buses off normal services including the 14B/17 and 62 to run college and school services, because quite simply, they're money makers!

Begger's can't be choosers, whether they like sideways and rear seats does not influence passenger useage of a bus service.

VLW's are used on school services where passenger useage is high, sticking a single decker bus for 70+ kids on a route that has 1 journey per day has a great impact than say a single decker on the 10A every 3 minutes.

Well its annoying that they brought some of the VLW's to the north west to mostly use on school services rather than to help capacity on some of the busiest non school routes. Also i know that passenger usage won't simply go down as a lot of people have no alternative but you could at least make a better experience for them also there would be less complaints. Stagecoach seems to have the best record out of the big 3 when it comes down to satisfied customers. And i still think the DLA's should be school buses.