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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Enter Anti SPAM Code: Click here to refresh this page Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by caeos[/i] [br]Would like to know what the new hove route is... http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1817055.0.0.php A bus company is struggling to break even because it does not have enough passengers. Tom Druitt, the founder of the Big Lemon Company which started running buses from Falmer station to Brighton station and back on September 1, will review the service at the end of the month. He says the company needs to increase passenger numbers by 20 per cent to make it financially viable. If this does not happen he will look at making changes to how the service is run. The former care home manager said: "In September passenger numbers grew very rapidly and since then they have been steady. "In three months we should know whether people find it useful enough for it to continue. I have some ideas in mind if it is not working, for example, we are quite busy in the evenings so it may be that we stop having so many services throughout the day." The service starts at 7.15am and runs every half an hour up until 7.15pm, before it becomes hourly, running until 12.45am. Tickets cost £1, or £2 for the day. Mr Druitt added: "Obviously we want to run good services and discourage people from getting into their cars. If people do not find a particular service useful there is no point in it running. We are just experimenting at the moment." [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.