Halton Transport

[Quackdave]

RE: Halton Transport

(06/08/2018 07:27)RSTurbo50 Wrote:  The Merserytravel contracts must be keeping them afloat. I am aware these contracts pay pretty well...

Given that Merseytravel contracts make up fewer than 10% of the journeys (*) operated by Halton Transport, they'd have to pay extremely well to cross-subsidise the entire remainder of the network!

I don't know why you're so determined to believe that Halton's commercial routes are unremunerative, but your observations of them must be somewhat limited to lead you to the conclusion that "almost empty" is the norm. It isn't.

(*) On a weekday, I make it approximately 52 Merseytravel-subsidised journeys (45 of which are schools), versus 464 total journeys on the core commercial network. I counted them visually so cannot promise that's perfectly accurate, but it should be reasonably close.