Excellent points EI-BUD, but I fear logic and statistics will not be enough to placate people like West Brit. The only way to sate his/her appetite is for BHD to close, and everything to transfer up to the shed.
The distance thing keeps rearing its head too. The plain fact of the matter is that people from the mainland DO choose BHD for its convenience to the city centre. Their perspective of BFS is that it's out in the Stix. Rightly or wrongly, that IS their perspective.