Are you still in the dark about flexible rostering? ONCE there was man called Ken Livingstone who wanted to give the people cheap fares. He was poor but honest, and his aim was to give a service, which he did. Starting with the least subsidised transport system in Europe, he got 13 per cent use three months.
Sadly, this was a crime Bromley council sued him the press slagged him, and Lords stopped him.
Now Sir Freddie Lake: is in trouble, also for g:.. ing cheap fares He is = pirate, and his was to make mone!. i did Startine £500,000 01 hs-= fiteering incore £20 million Nobody sued him. press raised cash for hir. and the Law Lord Ken to bother suc ourful buccaneer.
Ken's transport emp.: ran up a f125 million de:
impressive, realise it amounts o pounds per user.
Freddie's Tal million debt - impress: = when you realise this is th hundred pounds per use Nobody seemed notice that Freddie's corr pany was doing no bette:
than Ken's. (Of Freddie himself was doir.z fine - nice house, flascar, swashbuckling image and other comforts But money is mone! and Ken and Freddie ha to plead for subsidies although the press didn: quite treat their pleas the same way. The pro blem was that you car: make profits in a recession by cutting prices, except a: a short-term measure bankrupt your friends breed the people dry monopoly and This may be slighils unjust poor people can't travel. And it may b inefficient half you: equipment isn't used. Bu: it does keep alive the grea: virtues dashing enterprise, and if people are mug enough to believe you, they might all work for f30 a week like Sir Freddie's employees.