Taken for a ride by Bankfoot Buses?

Some things don’t change. A rival bus operator sets up in town offering a free bus service against an established incumbent, with allegations of predatory competition. No it’s not one of the towns that suffered in the bus wars of the late 1980s and early 1990s, this is happening right now in Perth.

Bankfoot Buses started innocently enough, surviving on private hire work as an off-shoot of a transport consultancy. But then it began registering local services in competition with...