The BEST way to make a profit
How ? Simple. Just cancel buses.
Anyway what more can one expect from an organisation, run by nincompoops. I tell you these guys are terrible and the management of their buses is of the lowest order. Inspite of having huge infrastructure at their disposal - they make shoddy work of it all. All at the expense of the poor tax-paying, fare-paying public.
Lets see in detail.
Where there is a need for 10 buses, just run 3. The number of commuters is obviously not going to decrease just because you have cancelled 7 buses. What will happen is that the crowd of 10 buses will somehow fit into the 3 buses - however inconvenient it may be. Who benefits ? The BEST, of course. They make the same amount of collections. The burden of fuel, staff and overhaeds for 7 buses, just vanishes. So what you see is huge profits. At the expense of the public, for whom the service is meant, in the first place.
Bus conductors also gain. They punch and punch away to glory. They have some absurd kind of rule in the BEST that if a conductor on a trip punches more than a specified number of tickets, then he gets a commission on the 'extras'. Big money of you look at the numbers. No wonder he wants to pack them all in. There is a downside to this. Bus drivers are given commisions if they get the bus back into the depots on time. Now if the old conductor is busy packing people into the bus, then it means the bus is going to get delayed. This contradicts with, the desires of the drivers. The result of another of BEST's stupid policies.
The fare-paying commuter ends up as the loser. The ineffeciencies of the BEST get an incentive to go a step further.
Anyway what more can one expect from an organisation, run by nincompoops. I tell you these guys are terrible and the management of their buses is of the lowest order. Inspite of having huge infrastructure at their disposal - they make shoddy work of it all. All at the expense of the poor tax-paying, fare-paying public.
Lets see in detail.
Where there is a need for 10 buses, just run 3. The number of commuters is obviously not going to decrease just because you have cancelled 7 buses. What will happen is that the crowd of 10 buses will somehow fit into the 3 buses - however inconvenient it may be. Who benefits ? The BEST, of course. They make the same amount of collections. The burden of fuel, staff and overhaeds for 7 buses, just vanishes. So what you see is huge profits. At the expense of the public, for whom the service is meant, in the first place.
Bus conductors also gain. They punch and punch away to glory. They have some absurd kind of rule in the BEST that if a conductor on a trip punches more than a specified number of tickets, then he gets a commission on the 'extras'. Big money of you look at the numbers. No wonder he wants to pack them all in. There is a downside to this. Bus drivers are given commisions if they get the bus back into the depots on time. Now if the old conductor is busy packing people into the bus, then it means the bus is going to get delayed. This contradicts with, the desires of the drivers. The result of another of BEST's stupid policies.
The fare-paying commuter ends up as the loser. The ineffeciencies of the BEST get an incentive to go a step further.
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