LCR Bus Franchising

[Mayneway]

RE: LCR Bus Franchising

(27/02/2022 18:32)Barney Wrote:  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.

It was you that brought up concessionary passes in the first place and I’ll say this as my last comment on the subject. I work in the industry and have a great understanding of it. Burnham and his counterpart Mayors want a ‘system like London’, the system in London is heavily propped up by taxpayers and is STILL in massive debt to the tune of £40 million?? Why would anyone want a system that needs such massive propping up??
Fares won’t be any cheaper than they are now, they won’t re-introduce all the lost services and who’s to say we won’t loose more services.
The system isn’t perfect at the moment but it works and it doesn’t cost the tax payer a fortune to prop up.