Re: Boo Hiss to Hillside

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Vaughan Williams wrote in message <83anmh$reo$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>
>> As Sam has mentioned earlier that when train disruption happened
>during
>> peak, it is vertually impossible to get a bus or two within an hour
>as they
>> will be making their regular runs.  Let me assure you that station
>staff
>> would have done their best to obtain buses - often by ringing all the
>bus
>> companies in the area.
>
>Which indicates a lack of contingency planning.

Are you seriously suggesting that private bus companies should spend upwards
of $200K on a bus, and leave it sitting around doing nothing, just in case
something on the railways goes belly up?

Dave