Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
From the Flybe thread (!):
Or maybe a change in the law, easing operations like "Bob's minibus" which he might do in between ploughing his fields? At present he'd have to register his route etc, and wouldn't be able to do something different this week because the villagers had got together and agreed it, but in reality for that kind of "local service for local people" he would tell people directly he was having a day off or something.
Perhaps one should be allowed to operate that kind of bus service, using say a 17 seater minibus with a tail lift, on a taxi licence? Or indeed even an extension of Section 19 to for-profit very small operations? The Dutch have that sort of concept in their "Buurtbus" services I believe.
Only further - and radical - changes to society will allow us to go back to a situation in which public transport forms a viable alternative to the car in many rural areas.
Or maybe a change in the law, easing operations like "Bob's minibus" which he might do in between ploughing his fields? At present he'd have to register his route etc, and wouldn't be able to do something different this week because the villagers had got together and agreed it, but in reality for that kind of "local service for local people" he would tell people directly he was having a day off or something.
Perhaps one should be allowed to operate that kind of bus service, using say a 17 seater minibus with a tail lift, on a taxi licence? Or indeed even an extension of Section 19 to for-profit very small operations? The Dutch have that sort of concept in their "Buurtbus" services I believe.