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Re: Greater Cambridge Transport

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On 30/12/2023 11:52, Theo wrote:
> The County/CPCA could choose to support the P&R services, which is what they
> did for the trial.  But not sure it would be the best use of funds if nobody
> used them.  Maybe they should have another trial to see if anything has
> changed?
> 
> One awkwardness with the P&R setup is that there's the whole P&R branding
> thing with dedicated buses owned by Stagecoach: if they contract Dave's
> Coaches instead of Stagecoach to run the evening service they'll need a
> second, different, fleet.  And at present all the P&R revenue goes to
> Stagecoach and 'Dave's' would take almost nothing in ticket sales (many
> people would be returning on a ticket sold by Stagecoach earlier in the
> day).
> 
> CPCA are exploring legal powers for TfL-style bus franchising where all the
> revenue goes to them, they set the timetable and subcontract out running the
> buses, where it would then be possible to design a sensible timetable whose
> primary goal is to get people from A to B, rather than make money for
> Stagecoach.

Glad they are aware of the problem.

The whole thing about the charging zone (which they dropped) does show a 
slight disagreement with the mindset of these elected officials and they 
people they serve.

They seem to be spending a lot of money trying to encourage people to 
use these buses, and discourage people  from driving into the city.

All they'd need would be one bus running a round robin around each of 
the P&R sites. It doesn't have to be frequent, just exist.

Or maybe I'm wrong - if they did it in the past, and there was no 
interest, that shows there's no demand.

Andy

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Greater Cambridge Transport Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2023-12-29 16:44 +0000
  Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2023-12-30 10:13 +0000
    Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Ken <ken@birchanger.com> - 2023-12-30 10:31 +0000
      Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2023-12-30 11:52 +0000
        Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2023-12-30 13:10 +0000
        Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Ken <ken@birchanger.com> - 2023-12-31 11:38 +0000
        Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> - 2023-12-31 16:24 +0000
          Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2023-12-31 18:47 +0000
            Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-01-01 07:24 +0000
              Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-01-01 17:43 +0000
                Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Alan <eternal-september@ourmailbox.org.uk> - 2024-01-01 21:21 +0000
                Re: Greater Cambridge Transport Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-01-02 08:12 +0000

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