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Edward Harris
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Dear Scottish Borders Council,

I am making a Freedom Of Information Act request about your buses that you operate.

Note that my request and all of my questions is only in relation to your public registered bus routes that you directly operate.

So this is in regards to your routes numbers - 20 46 47 48 49 85 86 902 910 911 912 964 983 - services.

My questions are as follows:

• Please provide the current faretables (showing all of the Single fares and Return fares and all other tickets that you issue and accept) for all of your bus routes.

• What ticket machines (make and model) do you currently use.

• Please attach a copy of the manual for your ticket machines.

• Please attach a copy of your current running boards for all days of the week.

• Please provide a current fleet list (showing the reg number and make and model and fuel type (eg diesel or electric etc)) for your current bus fleet.

• How many bus drivers do you currently employ.

• What is the wage that your bus drivers get paid.

• How many operational staff or other staff involved in running your buses (so anyone involved in your bus operation other than bus drivers) do you employ.

• What is the wage that these other bus employees (eg operational staff or anyone else involved in your bus operation other than bus drivers) get paid.

• Where is the location of your bus depot where you park your buses.

• What facilities (eg bus wash or fuelling facilities or maintenance shed or office buildings or staff canteen or anything else you may have there) are located at your bus depot.

• Can you attach a copy of the Conditions Of Carriage for your bus services.

• Please attach the ticket sale statistics (showing how many of each ticket was sold on each route) for each route for the past twelve months.

• Please attach the passenger usage statistics (showing how many passengers used each route) for each route for the past twelve months.

Thank you for your help and i look forward to your response to my Freedom Of Information Act request.

Yours faithfully,

Edward Harris

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Dear Edward Harris

I acknowledge receipt of your request for information relating to the
above and shall respond within the relevant 20 working day period.

Yours sincerely

Information Management Team

Scottish Borders Council

0300 100 1800

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Dear Edward Harris,

Further to your request for information under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 relating to the above I am now able to respond.

 

The following response was prepared and provided on behalf of
Infrastructure and Environment:

 

• Please provide the current faretables (showing all of the Single fares
and Return fares and all other tickets that you issue and accept) for all
of your bus routes.

 

See attached files

 

• What ticket machines (make and model) do you currently use.

 

[1]https://www.ticketer.com/en/press-articl...

 

Scottish Borders Council is not obliged to provide information where is
reasonably obtainable through other means under s25 of FOISA 2002, the
information you have requested can be obtained at the above link.

• Please attach a copy of the manual for your ticket machines.

 

See above for website information.

Scottish Borders Council is not obliged to provide information where is
reasonably obtainable through other means under s25 of FOISA 2002, the
information you have requested can be obtained at the above link.

 

• Please attach a copy of your current running boards for all days of the
week.

 

See attached files

 

• Please provide a current fleet list (showing the reg number and make and
model and fuel type (eg diesel or electric etc)) for your current bus
fleet.

 

All diesel

 

Asset Description Vehicle Model

LJ14 BUW Mercedes Treka

LJ14 BVA Mercedes Treka

SP64 YFW Ford Transit

SP64 VVZ Ford Transit

SP64 YFF Ford Transit

ST64 ASU Ford Transit

ST64 AUK Ford Transit

ST65 GZV Ford Transit

ST65 GYA Ford Transit

ST65 GXW Ford Transit

ST65 GXZ Ford Transit

EN17 CZW Mercedes Treka

EN17 DBO Mercedes Treka

EN17 GLV Mercedes Treka

EX68 HJF Mercedes Treka

EX68 HUG Mercedes Treka

EX68 HUU Mercedes Treka

EX68 HHP Mercedes Treka

 

• How many bus drivers do you currently employ.

 

21 total including relief drivers

 

• What is the wage that your bus drivers get paid.

 

£16,025.02 - £16,719.56 pro rata per annum

 

• How many operational staff or other staff involved in running your buses
(so anyone involved in your bus operation other than bus drivers) do you
employ.

 

One Senior Driver

 

• What is the wage that these other bus employees (eg operational staff or
anyone else involved in your bus operation other than bus drivers) get
paid.

£23,069.43 - £25,204.68 per year pro rata

 

• Where is the location of your bus depot where you park your buses.

 

Newtown St Boswells

Hawick

Galashiels

Plus some remote and home based for rural operations

 

• What facilities (eg bus wash or fuelling facilities or maintenance shed
or office buildings or staff canteen or anything else you may have there)
are located at your bus depot.

 

Fuelling, Wash and Maintenance at Newtown St Boswells and Hawick

Fuelling and Wash only at Galashiels

 

• Can you attach a copy of the Conditions Of Carriage for your bus
services.

 

[2]https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...

 

Scottish Borders Council is not obliged to provide information where is
reasonably obtainable through other means under s25 of FOISA 2002, the
information you have requested can be obtained at the above link.

 

• Please attach the ticket sale statistics (showing how many of each
ticket was sold on each route) for each route for the past twelve months.

 

See attached files

 

• Please attach the passenger usage statistics (showing how many
passengers used each route) for each route for the past twelve months.

 

See attached files

 

SBC Passenger Transport’s ‘In House Bus Fleet’ is an operational
department where there are frequent changes to vehicle resourcing, driver
allocation and route management, the information provided is a snapshot
(April 22) of the existing profile of our current commercial operations.
Scottish Borders Council is in the process of a network wide review of all
commercial bus operations, there may be recommendations made in the
following few months to vary some of the services shown to best meet the
demands of Scottish Borders passengers.

 

Please note that the Ticketer output files only allow for a 56 day or two
month spreadover, the sales and passenger usage statistics are supplied in
6 files each representing every ticket sold or processed in a two month
period.

 

 

 

I should advise that you have a right to request a review within 40
working days from the date we respond to your request.  You should either
e-mail [3][email address] or write to the Information Manager,
Scottish Borders Council, Council HQ, Newtown St. Boswells TD6 0SA.

 

If after the Council’s FOI Advice Group have considered your review and
you are still not happy with the decision you then have a right to appeal
to the Office of the Scottish Information Commissioner, you do this either
by visiting [4]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal  or by post to: 
Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9DS.

Yours sincerely,

 

Marita Jamieson-Barr

for the

Information Management Team

Scottish Borders Council

Newtown St Boswells

TD6 0SA

E mail:  [Scottish Borders Council request email]

Tel: 0300 100 1800

 

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