Diamond Bus North West

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RE: Diamond Bus North West
I think you're both confusing the legal allocation at Bolton depot with the actual amount of buses currently stationed there. Firstbus have always been poor in changing their allocation.

(17/07/2019 01:50)gilesbus1 Wrote:  Well you explain the drop in numbers then?

Current Fleet at Bolton 215
Current fleet at Atherton 55

Fleet being taken over from First on loan 125
Fleet being moved to Rusholme (max 50)
= 175 from 215 so that's down 40 before you start
Then we have 35 vehicles that Rotala have stated they are bringing in from elsewhere thats 160 on Bolton's fleet. Then bring in 40 from Atherton thats 200. So that's one hell of a drop from 270 to 200, so without service cuts what is it?, granted 15 vehicles worth of work is moving to that corrugated iron shack at Eccles but that's still down from 255 to 200 that's 55 vehicles down - so please find some reason for it before you start telling me I'm wrong, and at the same time maybe you friend Bob might like to explain to the trade unions how he's magically reducing the fleet and depots, but not cutting any services, some mystery isn't it????, or maybe its because rest breaks are being cut, another Rotala trick, all very exciting, also you friend Bob might like to explain how he';s going to move buses into Bolton with no anti vandal screens on them, when their use is insisted on by the Trade Unions there. Its all starting to look like the ingredients for a strike, before you've even started.

So do explain, this magic in mathematics as to how a fleet can drop from 255 to 200 with no service cuts or redundancies or anything else, and yes you talk rubbish, let me remind you, <"we have no intentions of closing Atherton, we couldn't possibly fit everything into Bolton"> well that was lies before you started, then we had, "We don't possibly want Vantage its losing money hands over theist" Then we've "Oh we are closing Atherton because the contracts have been retained by First that we expected to get" - The only contact of any size was Vantage, so somethings obviously a miss. The other contracts are only school and evening, hardly needing much resources at all. The school work totals about 6 vehicles. So you understand why I can't believe anything your saying about service cuts. I know i've seen it all before with the other operators who promised us the earth when they first came and then delivered nothing except service reductions, your all the same after all.