I guess the subsidy is to cover the periods of the day when the cost of running an individual bus is greater than the revenues that that particular bus generates but where the bus is required to make the overall service worth having or to provide a social service for those without cars.
The subsidy from Edinburgh Council to Lothian buses looks to be about £1m on a turnover of about £112m. I think the situation in rural areas is much more weighted towards a subsidised service.
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Date: 2012-02-23 04:27 pm (UTC)(other than the partial fuel duty relief).
I guess the subsidy is to cover the periods of the day when the cost of running an individual bus is greater than the revenues that that particular bus generates but where the bus is required to make the overall service worth having or to provide a social service for those without cars.
The subsidy from Edinburgh Council to Lothian buses looks to be about £1m on a turnover of about £112m. I think the situation in rural areas is much more weighted towards a subsidised service.