On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:13:28 +0100, Robert Woolley
wrote:

Sounds like a case for Roadside Ticket Machines....

Indeed. The trouble is that there are 5 or more companies competing
over the route - who would get the revenue?

Sounds like a case for re-regulation, bendies, a single operator, full
off-bus ticketing and rigorous inspections with a realistic[1] penalty
fare. Or IOW, exactly what happens on route 102[2] in Hamburg, which
is very similar (city-university-halls), but operated properly.

[1] £30 at least. Why should someone dodging a bus fare be fined less
than someone dodging a parking charge of a similar price?

[2] Now MetroBus something-or-other - but I remember it as the 102.

Neil

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