(14/12/2022 11:38)knutstransport Wrote:  Notice the 312 will only start at 9am. Doesn't make it any use for someone working normal office hours in Wilmslow and likely to be a regular passenger (travelling most days) rather than shoppers who may only travel once a week. I also find it strange the first journey is Wilmslow to Handforth and the last is Handforth to Wilmslow, not the other way around.

I also observe the 312 will leave Wilmslow 7 minutes after the 130 but will get there just 1 minute later. That will presumably weaken the viability of off-peak 130 journeys running to Handforth.

(14/12/2022 11:38)knutstransport Wrote:  As there is an existing bus from Wilmslow to Handforth Dean Retail Park, it might be the rules regarding subsiding bus services where there's a commercial alternative comes in to play. Cheshire East seem to interpret them more literally than TfGM.

(14/12/2022 14:53)iMarkeh Wrote:  Just makes it so that the development can claim 'we tried a bus, no one used it'.

Quote:That's the free bus though. No commercial service and as such, it wouldn't count as it wouldn't abstract any revenue from someone else.

(14/12/2022 19:03)knutstransport Wrote:  I think it might relate to Esther McVey. She was fussing to the media about the council having unspent S106 money and claiming the council should use it on a replacement for the withdrawn 378. Cheshire East argued at the time that would be against the conditions of the S106 funding.


I wouldn't be surprised if Cheshire East determined a contract awarded by Tesco and M&S to D&G Bus to be a 'commercial service'.

(15/12/2022 09:29)KXW212 Wrote:  Nice, tidy one bus, one driver duty.

(13/12/2022 20:43)iMarkeh Wrote:  I thought it best to introduce this as a new topic seeing as normally these tender updates end up in operator specific threads. We have a page for Manchester tenders and it seems to work well.


News for tenders are as follows
Cheshire West has put the 15/X30 Evening tender out. Same timetable as current. Contract due to start April 2023
Cheshire West has put the 102/103 Ellesmere Port Sunday Service tender out. Same timetable as current. Contract due to start April 2023

(15/02/2023 23:31)CX06 BHE Wrote:  Any news on these tenders?

(16/02/2023 19:06)iMarkeh Wrote:  On the 312, I think it's interesting that D&G have it to serve Handforth Dean Tesco (when Cheshire East had it to not serve Tesco), that's a good thing. Shame it couldn't serve Spath Lane though or something just to provide something different that the 130 isn't providing.