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here we go again WARRINGTON BOUROUGH COUNCIL have decided to lay on late night buses over xmas again . we have about 500 ( combined ) hc/ph licenced drivers in the borough . so unless my maths are wrong that's 500 famlies going to be affected . only last year W.B.C. were making a BIG ISSUE about there not being enough WHEEL CHAIR CABS in the town so a lot of drivers bought cabs we all know the price of those. Thats how they thank drivers by taking money out of there pockets . i dont think this is just our problem if it proves to be a success it could affect every town/city in the country.let me know your views a.s.a.p

Doesnt affect us that much, Punters dont want dropping off at the nearest main road at 2am, neither do they want to get on a bus and be abused by some drunken pleb who's sniffed the barmaids apron! It was a bit of a disaster last year, i didnt notice my takings were down. And you wouldnt anyway being Gaynors blue eyed boy!!!
And why are'nt you out workin??

i worked last nite i'm saving up to cover my xmas wages......... blo**dy buses................................... by the way there talking every weekend after xmas

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I D'ONT LIKE MONDAYS or tue;wed thu;fri;sat;NO HANG ON SUNDAYS ARE GOOD.it's PUB DAY ...................

As said above people want dropping off at the door or the end of the street not a mile and a half away at 3am in the morning. The buses we have running down here hardly make any money, they are empty most of the time.

we will all lose ...............

six routes runing out off bridge st up till 4 am and a suttle service runing from stockton heath all night

they have to find some jobs for all the polish drivers who have said put me down.........

christmas is one thing but every weekend .......... it will damage all drivers someway and make us all work longer as if we need to (some of us anyway)
dont forget the new p/h offive opening off bridge st

To say that the late night bus service won't have any impact is naive to say the least for several reasons:
1. The service is to be increased this year in both the number of buses and nights.
2. They will be using Bridge St, the main hackney pick up point, thereby forcing the hackneys to forage elsewhere (e.g. Academy Way and or Rylands St)
3. The cost will be £2 and £3 on Christmas and New Years Eve.
4. The plan is to maintain the service after the Xmas period thereby stealing from the takings of [b][u]every[/u][/b] driver in the quieter months.

If anybody can explain to me how this doesn't affect me or the trade in general I'm open to enlightenment

To a degree it will affect us all, but not IMO to a large degree.

Most of those folks getting the buses would never had got a taxi/PH anyway. It would have been mum and dad, or an earlier bus.

Most of the time a taxi/PH is cheaper than 3 or 4 getting a bus.

As has been alluded to, single women are unlikely to get a bus, and even unlikelier (is that a word? ) to want to walk home from the bus stop.

Also the late night buses do us all a favour in offerring the scum a nice alternative from the taxi/PH trade.

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IDFIMH

I agree with sussex on this one.

I don't think buses will impact on the taxi trade to a great extent. People who can afford taxis will still use them. The benefit of buses is that the number of '...what do you mean £5.00? Here have a quid to cover your fuel' type of customer.

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kevin
http://www.monmouthtaxis.co.uk

are the buses subsidised?

CC

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if the buses lose money the council are going to cover the loss ......... not right when WBT is a private company( but WBC does own 51% of the company) i bet they does pay our loses

The thing people forget about buses , is that after they pick up they have to drop off, now some people do not like 20 or 30 noisy drunken people outside their house at say 2 o'clock in the morning, and if these people were to know that is what they have to expect over Christmas, they might just get a petition together and have it stopped, it's amazing what councils can do, especially when they want to keep their seat.....

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Justice for the 96. It has only taken 27 years...........repeat the same lies for 27 years and the truth sounds strange to people!

they tried this in plymouth a while back. i always saw them empty. i read in the paper one day that 'it was a great sucess' the next day they were saying it worked out at COSTING the company £18 per passenger to run it.

Maybe you should tell John that steveo.

Save him banging on about his poxy landtrain.

It's my understanding, although there has been nothing official and no consultation with the trade locally, that the decision was taken some months back and will be funded in the main from the "crime reduction partnership" budget.

Ironic thing is when our local councils Head of Transport was asked about sources of possible funding for crime reduction initiatives for drivers (who are all vulnerable to attack at some point) I was told that there was no such thing. Now six weeks later not only was there funding but the council had hijacked it to subsidise the threat to 500 livlihoods, namely these buses.

It's about time the drivers took the council on instead of accepting all the spin that theyare fed. I for one am sick of being treated like a mushroom. Kept in the dark and fed on s*$t!!!

We have Buses running 24/7, 364 days a year in London.

Skinflints and drunks use them, the decent people still use Taxi's.