PRIVATISATION 'ON THE BUSES' THE START OF THE END FOR CONDUCTORS - INSIDE STORY: SEEING RED
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- Privatisation 'On The Buses' The Start Of The End For Conductors - Inside Story: Seeing Red
Diverging away from trains, we take a sideways look at buses.
This 1992 BBC documentary focuses on the future deregulation of London Buses to the private sector. Even to this day companies bid to TfL to run franchises of the London Bus network for a total overall cost, taking into account the costs of operating services, staff, maintenance, fuel, etc. Any profits made go to the shareholders of the franchisee, sometimes at the cost of services to passengers, staff levels or wages.
One of the focuses of the documentary is the future need of a conductor on bus services. The conversion to 'OPO' (One Person Operated) buses and the differences in wages between certain grades within a company for doing the same job.
Sound similar to any Train Operating Companies?
Does 'OPO' sound like 'DOO' to anyone?
Perhaps the future of the rail network was foreseen here..
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Interesting to hear how many lies the union were telling about how ‘privatisation’ of London buses would look.
It wasn't lies, the original plan was to turn them into commercial routes like outside of London. What sense does it make? They are in it to make a profit which means it costs TFL more to run the service than it would to operate themselves and that cost is passed onto tax payers who have never stepped foot in London, TFL have had bail outs from the government and that money comes from tax payers around the country.
Bring back nationalised buses and trains.
Many trafitional Long distance stopping routes were split in 2 since privatisation. For s time they provided a connection half way with through fares. Then both psrts of the split route were shortened making impossble to make the journey on a maximum of 2 buses, and through fares were no longer available. So the old 14/A Glassow to Dunfermline via Kilsyth, Haggs, Stirlng and Alloa (it was split 24 Glasgow to Stirling and then 14/A Stirling to.Dunfermline which still lasted for several years before First pulled the remaining section of the 14/A) to do the same journey now you have to catch a First Glssgow 89 from Glasgow to Kilsyth, a Firsg Scotland East X35 from Kilsyth to Haggs, a First Scotland East X36 from Haggs to Stirling, a First Scotland East from Stirling to Allloa and a Stagecoach Fife 8 from Alloa to Dunfermline, and you have to pay to the driver each service you board (5 times), and have to wait ages between buses when changing at least on some legs of the journey.
Just one example of how privatisatiion has made distance travel fsr less convenient for passengers. Maybe natonalisation will not returm things exactly how they were pre deregulation. But franchising of series of routes that must be operated at least providing better connections for passengers doing distance journeys with rail style through single and return fares, even if travelling on 4 or 5 buses each way you only need to travel on the one ticket. It's not too complicated because if the trains can do it so easily, surely the buses can too. Also have though single and return tickets when travelling on buses, trains snd ferries using multiple operators with the same ticket.
How about combo bus-train-bus services post privatisation.
You'd be shocked to know that nationalised buses actually existed up until 2007 in Blackburn, Lancashire. The buses in Blackburn are so much better run under Transfer than its ever been, however they are much more expensive but the council who used to own Blackburn Transport ran it to the ground, the Labour Council privatised it in January 2007.
I believe that the driver who had the garage hearing took redundancy and set up a bus/coach company that mainly did school buses and was still running around the early 00s I recall
People wasting time ringing bus garages complaining about what conductors are wearing, how miserable people can be.
Love how the indian bus dude had to deal with the African women . Diversity
Worked with the old school LT boys that hung on until now and they’re the most straight laced nicest people, sometime! LOL but yeah, proper workers. Not like now, johnny come latelys
Yes. Bring back what was known locally as the corporation buses.