Anonymous wrote:
Yup. Absolutely true.
Even outside London, you cannot reggister a bus route unless it has a specific core route and timetable. That is why I say that the IGT Taxibus cannot, under the present legal system, be operated by anything other than a Licensed Private Hire or Hackney Carriage which is Dual Licensed.
A second Legal problem within the IGT concept, is that you cannot legally mix car share, section 19 vehicles and commercial operations together. They must be kept apart.
However, all these legal problems can be overcome with a co-operative large Council, as they can, within certain limits, allow experimental schemes to go ahead, provided they are properly reviewed within the legal framework. You would need a brave Council though.
The point is, that if the experiment succeeded and was found highly beneficial for the public, then they might just change the laws to allow it!
There are both dangers and opportunities for us with such schemes, and it will take a cleverer man than I to identify them all.
But, that is precsiely what we have here with this Forum. The benefit of numerous experienced people.
even though I have studied the IGT scheme fully, on costs the 800million to set up the scheme toggether with annual profits of a billion is pie in the sky.
the rents on the garages are not properly assesed nor is the team required 20,000 buses will nead some 44,000 drivers alone, when sickness and holidays are counted, plus office staff of 4,000 and ultimatly a management team of up to 30.
it would require 1000 mechanics tripping over themselves, the fares quoted are just not high enough.
the London scheme quoted is unachievable, the shear weight of coins would make it so.