On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:44:27 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
John Williamson wrote:
But as soon as all the twirlies started to get on at one city centre
to go to the other one, because it was free, the bus was full on
departure and couldn't provide the service to the communities that it
was designed to serve.

So they withdrew it

If that had been the company I work for, we'd have put an extra bus on;
probably as a limited stop duplicate from Southampton to Portsmouth,
with a couple of stops in between. I suspect politics or sour grapes.

Quite. 'Why should we improve services if they're being used by those who
don't pay'

While customers with old fogey's bus pass cards don't pay personally,
their journeys are paid for. It should be all the same to the bus
operator.