I'm treading a bit carefully here because I could well sit alongside the representative of this attraction in meetings of which we are both members. But I feel I must write this.
The tramway, and to me at any rate this hugh loss. I see the tramway every day, seven days a week, come rain and shine from around 9.30 in the morning to the last tram around 6 p.m. They are invariable full to overflowing virtually the whole day, including days with howling gales and downpour of rain.. Going past the stations, particularly the main entrance station, there is a queue of hundreds for most of the more popular days. I assume the trams run with the maximum possible journeys every day.
On the minus side I suppose there are unexpected problems with the track, or vehicles, or in the power shed.
But surely as an outside observer it does not seem difficult to predict in advance of every season how much it costs, how much it will take, throw in a bit for an emergency or two, and work out how much the fares have to be to make a profit. Or are they saying that it s so expensive to run that by charging the "correct" price no one would go on it. Or, no beating about the bush, are the administration costs so high that they need a radical overhaul.
I'm not looking forward to the next meeting. I might be thrown out. Mike