you have to put a service out there that's useful for everyone--but you don't accomplish this by specifically designing it for marginal cases, or more precisely, those w least choice abt their circumstances (distracted person can pay attention more easily than blind one can see)
if you're going for general travel then you'll be operating as long as people are out and about
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whereas if u explicitly target drinkers then you'll sacrifice midday or morning service to go all-out at night
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I think TfL decided to target night drinking over early morning at one point. And I'm more objecting to "commuter hours only" services. Though I suppose there's a trade off in which hours you run at night vs which hours you run at other times.
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Are the major costs in running public transport the staff, or the infrastructure? And is this different for buses vs rail/metro/trams?
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Infrastructure isn't much of an operational cost, more of a capital cost. Drivers are the most expensive aspect of operating costs as far as I know
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It's still a cost though, at least if accounted for properly. Privatised UK TOCs are almost all subsidised even when on pure operations they pay a premium. (The outdated figures I've seen show only the (then) South West Trains and Southern actually making a surplus.)
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