Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(09/10/2018 20:01)Bevan Price Wrote:  But who would be able to buy it? In our area, the "competition people" who not allow Stagecoach to buy everything -- maybe one depot, perhaps.

First have been tending to reduce some of their bus operations.

Transdev seem to largely avoid "big city" operations.

Rotala - are they big enough to afford all of the Arriva bus operations ?

Go Ahead ??

Anyone else ??

And in any case, potential buyers will want to see if/how the city region mayors want to control / franchise bus operations in their areas.

Transdev do at least run buses into Leeds and Manchester from towns outside. They could be interested in Southport. Mind you, so could Rotala.

Talking of whom, CEO of Rotala Simon Dunn gave an interview in Route One here.
http://www.route-one.net/articles/Operat..._expansion