Baxenden Bank
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Neither Hanley nor Newcastle are the draw that they used to be for the drinker / clubber. There are theatres / concert venues and a new cinema in Hanley. There is a large student population (Keele and Staffordshire Universities) but I don't know their socialising habits. More importantly there are lots of workers who are not on standard 9-5 hours across The Potteries who will be abandoned by the removal of yet more evening services.Is there much of a night life in the area?
A business committing suicide by 1,000 slow cuts.
I couldn't even do my old office job nowadays as the last bus home is at 1830 and I often worked until after that time.
Chicken or egg.
- Don't provide (or remove) a service and you can 100% guarantee that no workers (or anyone else for that matter) will use it.
- Don't provide an evening bus home and all of a sudden your outward journey in the morning / afternoon / early evening becomes pointless if you can't get home again.
- Don't provide an evening bus back from the station and day trips by train become impossible.
- Don't provide an all day / all week service and your chance of attracting a new generation of customers is next to 0%. The only possible outcome of which is the elimination of the business once your current customers move on.