Express Airport Transfers (Europe) Ltd and The Skiers Lodge Ltd t/a Easybus

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RE: Express Airport Transfers (Europe) Ltd and The Skiers Lodge Ltd t/a Easybus

(10/07/2018 22:05)iMarkeh Wrote:  I have to agree that the current TL is a mess. Regardless of it's past, it shouldn't be running Bakers Lane or Stockwell Grove as there is a commercial alternative. If the TL was ran commercially, it could serve all these areas but it seems WBC are being very dodgy. They didn't even put EasyCoach on the bus and coach database originally and up until yesterday the entries were all messed up.

The 146 is laughable. For the sake of 1 extra bus, you could have a uniform timetable. WBC seem to forget that companies can use more than one driver on a route. They seem to want everything to be 1 bus, 1 driver. I think another issue for the 146 is WBC wanted to entice operators by making a gap for school work. Either that or D Jones/Pats specified the gap to reduce the tender price. It is really messy though. Look at all the routes which were bus routes. The 17 and 33 which used to be ran by buses and it is now a taxi route

When it first started running there was no commercial alternative though and the council only felt the need to serve Stockwell Grove and not a full 42 which is where Easycoach have possibly made a mistake the 41 always carried better loadings than the 42 as the 42s main demand is a bus to town rather than the industrial estate from the Hightown area which i can see its easy to plan a Hightown Circular.

Well it says enough about WCBC as Arriva offered to do a joint operation on the 146 with Oswestry and Wrexham running a trip each to provide the GHA Timetable and that was rejected and Arriva were basically told to do one in a sense then the council produced this awful X46/146 timetable then awarded it to D Jones and later Pats, as for the 17 and 34 (33 is Arriva's Llay) a Minibus is suitable as there is no demand on these routes the 34 never got any major loadings back in its day and only had 3 or 4 runs IIRC the 17 is covered in a way ayway anyone who lives in the Moss can walk 5 minutes and get Arriva's 21/21A or walk the opposite direction same time and get Arriva's 12/12A.