{"id":3783,"date":"2024-02-16T02:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T02:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/a-recipe-for-success\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T02:29:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T02:29:02","slug":"a-recipe-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/a-recipe-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"A Recipe For Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"
What Makes A Good Bus Company?<\/span><\/p>\n It All depends!<\/p>\n If you are an employee<\/span>, you will want high wages, good working conditions and job security.<\/p>\n If you are a shareholder or Managing Director<\/span> you will want good profitability with hefty dividends as a return for your investment.<\/p>\n As a Local Authority<\/span> you want all of your voters to be satisfied without needing to pay out subsides.<\/p>\n As a Passenger<\/span> you want low fares, frequent services and high quality buses, preferably from a stop very close to your front door.<\/p>\n As a Politician<\/span> you might want competition to drive down fares and enhance service quality OR<\/span> you may want to run things yourself freed from the profiteering shareholders.<\/p>\n Edinburgh, Blackpool, Nottingham, Reading …<\/p>\n A week or so back we saw an example of how well a Local Authority company can strive to do the best for its passengers.<\/p>\n … (which is …<\/p>\n From there it was “as outward route reversed”.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n Increasing the running time would cost an extra bus and would not generate any extra revenue. So, the standard policy of negativity would be to reduce the frequency to every 15 minutes and (if possible) use double decks.<\/p>\n But let the company explain, as it did in excellent fashion when revealing the problem to its passengers.<\/p>\n So the 27 now loops in the opposite direction to the 28 but still runs every 12 minutes.<\/p>\n The route map is given in full (fbb shows only an extract) …<\/p>\n … and the revised timetable emphasises the circular nature at Thornhill.<\/p>\n Some customers were disadvantaged. It is no longer be possible to get from Templeton Avenue to Sainsburys. A walk to the Nine Giants for the 27 or to Heol Hir for the 28 is now necessary for trips to the store.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p><\/div>\n When fbb saw these pre-production models he thought that Hornby had decided not to issue two versions. When it appeared that both were available fbb then found that almost every retailer has “sold out” on their web site – and that included Hornby itself.<\/p><\/div>\n …who claimed to have one left<\/span>! Maybe they were one of the traders offering pre-orders when fbb trawled the sites on previous occasions.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n And it was, indeed, R60208 and it was as detailed as fbb’s green BP tanker …<\/p>\n … but, like the real thing …<\/p>\n … it does have just one end ladder not the two of other versions.<\/p>\n