LCR Bus Franchising

[Barney]

RE: LCR Bus Franchising

(27/02/2022 18:09)Mayneway Wrote:  The fact your saying this shows you have no connection to the industry. It’s massively abused.
I had a data collector with me for 3 hours on Friday afternoon and he took 3 concessionary passes off users.

I have no reason to disbelieve you but what you haven't said is how many concessionary passes were checked during that time. As I said in a previous post, any system is open to abuse unless it is policed and audited correctly. On Merseyside, the old Saveaway scratch tickets were abused as are the current paper day tickets. Also, fraud is not something unique to public transport; the amount of money illegally syphoned off in contracts during the current pandemic proves that.

Anyway, you now seem to be conflating the proposed franchising model in the LCR with the abuse of concessionary passes in TfGM.