On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:48:23 +0000, Colin McKenzie
wrote:

Harry Spencer wrote:
To me, they all seemed a bit naked without any adverts. Which got me
wondering how much lost revenue there now is from running bendy buses.
Forget running costs of the service itself, surely the lost revenue from not
having any adverts on each side is quite some loss?

The extra costs of running bendis over Routemasters are considerable,
but many of them do not accrue to the operator. Most are due to the
fact that a bendibus weighs twice as much as a Routemaster, the rest
to the facts that it's wider and longer and has no conductor.
- extra vandalism of the bus
- extra traffic congestion
- extra fuel used
- extra damage to the road
- extra delay/danger to cyclists
- extra walking to and from bus stops

Any more?



Ticket machines at every stop. Would be interesting to know how much
money some of them take in a day!


Dave