tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post590540005672562756..comments2024-03-25T22:17:35.616+00:00Comments on Public Transport Experience: In fbb's Back Yardfatbusblokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06833340546527596517noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-76934106007670868132016-06-08T11:03:01.096+01:002016-06-08T11:03:01.096+01:00Thanks for informing us in which there is authenti...Thanks for informing us in which there is authentic description for users. 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They favoured the big operators for many years at the expense of the smaller ones when it came to tenders, and the countywide tendering fiasco of 2011 has given Go Ahead an open chequebook to charge whatever price they please going forward. Many of the long standing independents who worked schools are now out of business or severely reduced in size thanks to Dorset's one operator policy. <br />Few other operators are in a position to compete at the same level - First is content with it's commercial rump of work and Yellow Buses is content to manage decline and will have virtually no DCC work in the coming year as it is about to lose it's bus services with just the 4 vehicles worth of schools contracts remaining. <br />Contrast Dorset's clueless approach with that of neighbouring Wiltshire, where there is an all operator Day Rover ticket and encouragement of the smaller operator to bid for single vehicle workings on services, the result is a healthy competitive environment for tendered contracts and cost containment to the taxpayer. <br />It isn't fun being a small operator in a climate where you are expected to invest in expensive kit for contracts as good as their notice period, as Webberbus have found to their cost. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-25194171565593852782016-06-05T11:32:08.800+01:002016-06-05T11:32:08.800+01:00The Taunton to Chard 99 is commercial and therefor...The Taunton to Chard 99 is commercial and therefore available to sell. What it is worth and the cost of Dupe-ing over staff in Chard may make it a challenge to sell. However Stagecoach continuing to run it may be cheaper than redundancies at present. We will see.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-62377956877733826782016-06-05T11:17:44.903+01:002016-06-05T11:17:44.903+01:00Excluding the surrounds of Poole and Bournemouth, ...Excluding the surrounds of Poole and Bournemouth, ie Christchurch to Swanage ring, Dorset is a very sparsely populated rural area. A high proportion are over 65 and 85% of households have a car/van and over 40% have 2 or more cars. This is not bus territory. The county priority is more to social care than transport. Dorset got out of micro managing individual bus routes and appointed Damory to run and monitor a network. As expenditure has to be cut further a consultation plus Danory's data will prioritize what is left. It may open the way for smaller operators again, but differently and with perhaps more knowledge.<br /><br />I think that funding transport at a county / unitary authority level is perhaps wrong and it should be over a wider regional level. Why should Dorset pay to take rural people shopping in Poole or Yeovil.<br /><br />I read somewhere that as the world urbanises, it should become a series of garden cities. The "garden" is all the hinterland providing its food, minerals, leisure and wildlife reserve. That means buses to take car less urban people to leisure in the country, but it is paid for by the city not the rural area.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-835690341089058452016-06-05T10:56:10.326+01:002016-06-05T10:56:10.326+01:0030 years ago I worked alongside computer programme...30 years ago I worked alongside computer programmers. We took their time estimates for new programs and multiplied by 4. Their program estimate was right but we needed the same again to get it to work with real people, the same again for "paperwork" (help text, user guide, program explanation) and a final chunk to prove the safety critical elements. Today the time and cost is still substantially under estimated and particularly making it work with real people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-2962811802317095852016-06-05T09:36:57.187+01:002016-06-05T09:36:57.187+01:00My note was actually a cut and paste of the articl...My note was actually a cut and paste of the article in the Dorset Echo.<br /><br />Typical modern PR that requires a positive spin - you must never say you are making cuts, but refer to it as more effective use of available resources etc!<br /><br />Also new management technique. Be assertive and demand more for less. Don't take no for answer,or believe anyone who says otherwise. If that doesn't work blame the officers and suppliers!!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Clive Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02059026405966912480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7432323264902617108.post-18644687774147210192016-06-05T07:16:54.357+01:002016-06-05T07:16:54.357+01:00Dorset did all this a few years ago, upsetting mos...Dorset did all this a few years ago, upsetting most of the local operators who weren't allowed on its BFF list, banning them from bidding and made themselves a laughing stock in the process. So, now they're doing it all again? What fun. Not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com