Diamond Bus North West

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RE: South Lancs Travel

(22/03/2015 18:21)Dentonian Wrote:  The downside to registering "positioning" trips, is that additional running time would be needed, compared to dead running, thus increasing duty hours and (possibly) sending the driver out of hours. There is also the problem that everytime you re-register the journey the bus is running on/off, you have to re-register the positioing trips. How much does each registration variation cost nowadays? £64 last I heard. Strange how things were so much more flexible and less bureaucratic when buses were regulated!!!

It's about £60 to register and amend a service I think, yeah. In theory, positioning journeys can just be added to an existing service - so when that service needs changing, the positioning journeys can be altered at no extra cost. There should be no need to add extra time onto the journey straight away as the amount of time already given to run dead should be sufficient enough. If it proves successful with the public and is worth running, then extra time can be added to cover picking passengers up. Particularly with longer journeys, it'd be a good investment to make as it'd cover a bit of the fuel costs even if no fares are taken.

Arriva could quite easily do this with their dead journeys to/from Ormskirk (they're often sitting in Ormskirk Bus Station for a while before starting their 395s anyway).