A few times this season i have got the Valley Express from Leatherhead. The good lady is more than happy to wave me off goodbye on the coach knowing that her hubby will return that day, and also not having to try and get the chilli sauce out off of on my tops from the Saturday nights kebab on my way way home. It is a very good service, with the route starting from Hampshire and working its way up, through surrey into London However the club now has elected to drop this route as there is only 30 people on the route per game, but then would there be more if the club was doing well i ask...............
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If the 30 of you were to pay £8.50 instead of a fiver, the club would be taking the same amount of cash in fares BUT they're not taking the extra £400 in match ticket sales. I think that's more where the problem lies...
Well if they are running half full, of course they will be cut back. Why continue with something that consistently losses money ?
The club have tried to make things easier for supporters to get to the game, at cost price, you can't expect them to continue it if there are not enough supporters.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink it as they say. Valley Express is a brilliant idea for certain people, but if there is not enough people willing to make a route cost effective, how long are you happy for it to keep being a loss-leader because its occassionally convenient for you ?
If you can see that the coach you occassionally get is only half full, then if you really want it to continue get those who do get it regularly to get organised, get everyone to pay a little bit extra and i'm sure the club will sort out some kind of subsidy.
Presumably because they considered that they could afford to subsidise them with the extra premiership money sloshing about.
Now that's all gone everything has to be self-financing probably at a guess.
Are they cutting Valley Express altogether? No, just the bus that isn't fully utilised. That makes sense to me.
Just like the fact that us international addicks can't get match commentaries... I can't expect the club to layout for my sake, just because I choose to live outside of south london. I started a website to get my fill, why don't you organise something with the other 29 commuters from your area instead of moaning about what others aren't doing for you?
Pop... oh dear. I asked you why you are being so shirty... you didn't answer.
Are you going to look into organising a coach for the "old boy" and the other Leatherhead commuters?
He was younger then ....... ;o)
Well Les Reid was an employee then so a car picked him up.
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If those thirty or so users agreed to an increase in fare, perhaps they might keep it on. However, you've said yourself WIwLB that this will be only the third time you've used it and perhaps on some journeys the 'thirty', only ended up being 15 or 20, which might have compounded the problem.
Either way unless someone approaches the club about it, how can anything get done.