are you good at Maths?

Radio 4 listener?
Radio Bristol and five live only

Are you an R4 Today program researcher, looking for people to set the problem of the day?

I you want people to use cars less and the buses more, you put up airport parking prices until they are unaffordable, and have a free bus service. Then you deal with the irate backlash.

If the airport buses are almost empty, you cut out every second one, and educate the passengers to plan ahead and get an erlier one. That will cause a flood of irate phone calls from them too, complaining that they had to wait hours in the airport because they were too early, and others from passengers who "didn't know" so missed a flight. - however, that would increase sales of food and drink in the concourse.

It is all swings and roundabouts -but you could always install a whole lot of play equipment in the main hall, for adults as well as children. Gambling machines, what the butler saw - and how about a flume from the top floor to a pool in the centre of the ground floor hall? Charge for those too. Take RyanAir as a model.

Easy enough if I CBA’d to do it.

If the buses are almost empty and there are 69 of them then it isn’t poorly served , surely it’s poorly used.

Share was what I meant, but “dare” might do.

“Number” infoman not “amount” !
I wonder why you wanted to know this or indeed dare it?

Thanks everyone for all your replys.
Looking at the passengers numbers the maximum amount of passengers that could be transported in one year would be 1,206,500 in one direction.
Although when I see the bus's heading to the airport,there only seems about ten to fifteen persons on them
Bristol Airport must be the largest poorly served airport in the U.K. for public transport.
An express rail tunnel type service, keeps on being mooted.
A tunnel would cost approx 600 million pounds and take approx 3 to 4 from the time the first sod was cut.

Parrots only onboard please , me shipmates , a 2 sail jobby with manly men with oars.
Ooh I feel all peculiar

oops......

Ah, so now we need to take boats into account ..... How big will the boats be and what is their passenger capacity? Are pets allowed on board as well? Do pets count as passengers in the headcount?

Excuse me, please, I need a little lie down .....

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Our park and ride is partially flooded so unable to count anything at the moment .

Oh dear, this isn’t going well

Ah, the Park and Ride - well, it all depends upon who is on Barrier Duty. Now, if it’s George, he likes to cram them in, but if it’s Harry or Jane, they like to allow enough space for people to be able to open their doors widely enough to get out of their cars. Thusly, George days are best for those who like to picnic in their cars - and have strong bladders .....

Is There a Park and Ride?
How many cars in the Park and Ride and what is the average number of passengers per car?

I'm still working on it
In fact, I can think of nothing else

Sorry Glamma, hope it goes away quickly. Will you need to leave the bus for a lie down? There goes the headcount again!

I feel a headache coming on

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Are the swings on the roundabout or nearby in a park? Bearing in mind that some of the passengers may linger there, it could mess up the headcount.

squiffy if I got that first part wrong then blame Danny Kaye, maths was never my strong point.

Oh crikey, I’d forgotten about that, but if it’s equal to the sum of the square of the 2 adjacent sides, I guess it’s swings and roundabouts isn’t it?

Does the potential height of passengers matter? Or girth?

Number not amount !

..... and we mustn’t forget to factor in the square on the hypotenuse. It could make all the difference!

Well callistemon that really messes with my calculations and now squiffy we have potential standing passengers too!
I wonder how many are allowed to stand? Do children squish up to get more of them on?

We occasionally used the Bristol Flyer to get to work but do you mean 50 passengers seated?

Are you allowing for standing passengers? If it's school holiday time there could be a lot of children on board