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Before you say that £1.64 is extremely poor can I suggest you complete the same exercise for the West Midlands where you will find the rate is perhaps 50% lower. And before quoting the journey mileage then I cannot think of any journey in West Midlands that is much shorter

The 15.35 will run during holidays but will not call at Heybridge School

to put it simply we had a bus shortage on both days due to vandalism at Longbridge station. The 15.35 is completed by a spare vehicle every day and does only one trip. This is basically a school service, although registered, on behalf of Worcester Council. Sometimes these things happen and the main thing is to get the kids home which we did in comparative luxury and, for some of them, free  

It is not a school service, it is a registered bus route open to all members of the public

Op dated Kev's bus fleet list

One trip per school day only. We did operate a  PM return but it appears they all start the same time but the finish times are staggered so no call for a return, they use either the 39 or 39A to get home.

We have several front side and rear Hannover units. Not sure if any of them work or what sizes they are but before I put them on Ebay they are available at £15 each sign. Pick up from Kevs depot only. Please remember no guarantee

They can also charge more, so what is your point ?

That was due to the Government raising it to £3 TFWM were gonna raise the price anyway, NX need to make money, Let's go are gonna find out that Charging £2 will struggle to pay overheads. Franchising will only put fares up

So what percentage of an operators income do you think comes from single cash fares ?

You not heard a single member of the public then

Not really know what that means. I listen to the public every day and everyone of them prefers to pay £2 than £2.90, if they wish to pay a cash fare, on any bus, dirty or clean. The public generally travel by bus because they cannot afford, or are unable to use, any other form of transport. All they want is to get from A-B at an affordable price. At Kev's we choose to charge a maximum £2.40 per single fare but if Express can afford to only charge £2 then good luck to them. When franchising kicks in then fares will be reduced but local taxes will go up to pay for it. When the political landscape changes then fares will go up and local taxes come down, nothing changes other than the large bus operators, and bus builders, will still make large profits.

Whilst criticising Travel Express for holding their single fare down to £2 no one appears to be criticising NatEx for raising their single fare to £2.90 ?

Happy New Year to all new and old friends from everyone here at Kev's. Could be interesting or the lull before the storm whatever, those of us old enough have been through it all before. Politicians will never let go of public transport but of course they know best ....they do don't they !!

From 5 January Kev's single fare will be £2.40 and a return only £4.50. We will also be selling weekly tickets for only £18 to be used on all Kev's services for 6 days.

This is what it says:

This is the new timetable - https://www.firstbus.co.uk/sites/default/files/public/node_images/22%2022A_Web%20OL.pdf

Thank you. We will advise our passengers that they will still have a service but how is the normal everyday passenger with no interest in public transport than get from a-b expected to find this. We will try to make sure they do over the coming weeks

Here he is bless him. Never seen Santa so happy as the Elves and Mrs Santa driving him potty building up to the big day

Ho Ho Ho, who knows were he will be next