Smettono regolarmente di raccogliere persone perché l’autobus è pieno e devono aspettare un’ora per il prossimo autobus che potrebbe anche essere troppo pieno!
Se una linea di autobus rifiuta regolarmente le persone a causa dello spazio limitato, non ha senso che non raddoppiano i viaggi in quel momento.
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di alex_cy
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I have been told by the colleague working in the sector that there are not enough bus drivers. And it is not possible to bring more bus drivers from abroad (for example from the EU) because there is an artificial limitation: a group of interest was able to write the regulation, enforcing a “every driver must live for a year in Cyprus before driving buses in Cyprus”. And there is no way to bring a bus driver to Cyprus, working in the office for a year, and then finally moving to drive buses as initially expected.
Hey, I am a traffic planner (not in Cyprus). Usually bus routes are contracted with a certain number of buses and a certain time table. The bus company that ultimatively gets the job then has to fulfill the contract. If the need is higher than thought, you can either a) live with it until the concession for the route ends, b) try and fix it. But for fixing it you need to have enough buses, enough drivers and the government or whoever hired the bus company will most likely have to pay lots of money since they want more from the bus company than in the original contract.
Bus drivers are sparse atm everywhere in Europe. The buses have to be checked upon regularly and so buses or garage personnel can be sparse aswell. Extra fuel has to be bought and paid for. The distribution of buses, their intervals, the rest periods for bus drivers, their spots to have those rest periods, all this has to be re-designed and depending on the size and length of an operation that can be a real hassle. 🙂
Last but not least, ofc this isn’t ideal and you would like to try and fix it. But it’s not that easy that you can do it with a snap of your finger. You CAN fix it though, but it’s an expensive task because the bus company wants a lot more money for having to bring extra services beyond the contract. Which is their absolute right, it’s the fault of whoever calculated the need. So the best and most realistisch chance is to hope that when the current contract ends, in the next iteration the timetables and expected number of bus fares is improved. 🙂 hope that helps!
Not enough bus drivers. No really, we have a serious issue and the government doesn’t give a single fk cause it doesn’t affect them or their friends pockets. Imagine if they came a gave a 2000€ bus driver salary. They would fill up the empty spots in a day.