They felt that any stop between terminuses was a total economic disaster and the idea that trains might pick up passengers was an aberration.
How can one runway handle the 25 million passengers that two terminuses could take?
How can he justify introducing legislation that allows disabled people access to stations and bus terminuses, but not to the vehicles themselves?
Of course access to transport should be made more available, especially at terminuses—but to make every vehicle accessible to disabled people would cost an enormous amount.
Eventually, we achieved provisions on access to stations, to trains, to bus terminuses, to buses, to taxis, but not, alas, to private hire vehicles, which has been achieved today.
However, once the branch lines were cut, it was discovered that passengers could not get to the terminuses of the profitable lines, which then became unprofitable.
I am excluding from that inquiry the large stations and terminuses which are clearly attractive to anyone who wishes to run a retail outlet or an office.
For infrequent routes or routes with hail and ride sections, or demand responsive transport, raised kerbs would only be feasible in terminuses.
