I've never been a bus driver so I'm intrigued to learn about the structures of bus depots and what you guys feel is the ideal size for a bus depot in terms of the number of drivers, fleet size, management team size, total number of routes, etc.
My two local companies, First Glasgow and McGill's have cut their number of depots but First went down the "super depot" route by investing in the new Caledonia Depot that combined services that were previously covered by Possilpark, Cumbernauld, Parkhead and Larkfield whereas McGill's closed their Barrhead Depot to move services, vehicles and staff to either Johnstone or Inchinnan. First Glasgow's Knightswood Depot also closed to move everything to Scotstoun Depot.I think it falls to management, in the case of large companies, to work on future predictions of the size of the operation. Large, tends to mean that you then have the option of closing outdated depots/facilities, which they have done, and concentrate on "Super Depots."
Same thing applied to Blantyre replacing the former Central SMT/Scottish Motherwell (Traction House) depot at around the same time Scotstoun replaced Knightswood (mid-2000s).My two local companies, First Glasgow and McGill's have cut their number of depots but First went down the "super depot" route by investing in the new Caledonia Depot that combined services that were previously covered by Possilpark, Cumbernauld, Parkhead and Larkfield whereas McGill's closed their Barrhead Depot to move services, vehicles and staff to either Johnstone or Inchinnan. First Glasgow's Knightswood Depot also closed to move everything to Scotstoun Depot.