bluepeterno1 wrote:my last post was pointed at appolo,and when was it against the law to voice your opinnion,no matter if it is the E.U or not ,if these ferries are supposed to be progress then take us back to the sixties, maybe my cost of the ferries were wrong but that makes no difference to the fact that they are a pile of SH---.I stay on the island but according to you username you dont,what about all the times the train connection has to leave people at the station because they are running late .and the reason they are running late is that it takes them to long to dock ,its only a matter of time before somebody has a heart attack running up the pier for the train ,then we wil see the Sh-- hit the fan.
bluepeterno1
I see from your posts you don't work on the island, so you don't
really stay there
Why blame CalMac for a lack of an Integrated Transport Policy? They have no more control over the train timetable than you or I. When the local councillor tried to get one of the mainland bus operators to shift their timetable by a few minutes to meet the ferry, he was basically flatly ignored by the operator. Both CalMac and the train operator are subject to financial penalties if they don't stick to their published (and un-integrated) timetables, so maybe the Scottish Executive is to blame when someone drop dead on the pier, although I suspect they'll suggest an earlier sailing would have been a better idea, as a delayed ferry is hardly a surprise.
MV Argyle's got operating problems in her first month of operation?
Well, well, that is a surprise, and I can't for the life of me understand why a brand new vessel should, just out of the yard and still being run in should develop faults. After all, everything's brand new.
Seriously though, someone somewhere really has to find some legislation buried away somewhere that get the three main operators round one table and bang their heads together until they get their services working together, rather than independently, and stop witch-hunting one of them as if changing that one operator would be like waving some magic wand. It most definitely wouldn't, and the lesson of the compulsion to initiate a tendering process should be a sombre warning that the most likely result is just more costs, and that means higher fares.
It's all very nice to propose free ferry travel, as we've just seen, but the operating bill doesn't go away. If it was ever propose and approved, the next morning there would be a group set up to have it cancelled on behalf of those who don't travel by ferry, it would be postponed, and the merry-go-round would start all over again