Anyway back to the topic of the thread ,took a wee jaunt to Edinburgh today on the train £6.80 return, got there in just under 25 minutes(not the overpriced new bus route £8.00 return) . Watched a few of the BBT buses seen a few with good numbers upwards of 20 on board and a few around 2 o'clock with only a handful onboard.
Seems the venture will have the desired effect of drawing in way more than the shortfall caused by LCB venture into WL. Good news all around for First.
Why do you hate Lothian so much? You said previously you wish for them (or LCB) to fail but when I asked why, you failed to answer. I just don't understand your mindset on why you want a company to fail to bad. My 2 guesses are you're either an employee of First and looking out for your job which is understandable or you have shares in the company. You keep talking about tax payers cash despite Lothian not operating in the way you seem to think it does and you seem to gloss over the fact that if you want to look at public transport wasting tax payers cash, we have a tramline which has done exactly that (£231m loan plus £21k daily interest) but yet, you say nothing on that subject which suggests it's not down to tax payers money after all.
Given this is peak tourism season, having tourists on tour buses is not a shocking revolution, and given we have more tourists here than ever before, there is plenty to go around. If you had looked at Lothian tour buses, you'd see they had people on them too so while First might make some money on this, it's not really going to change much in the terms of how tour buses operate here. It's good that people have a choice though, and they can choose which service they want. Just like how you can pick which supermarket to shop at or which website to browse, having a choice in life is a wonderful thing.