Diamond Bus North West

[Barney]

RE: Diamond Bus North West

(16/01/2021 01:38)Mayneway Wrote:  The comment Barney has made is actually inaqurate. The government has only been offering subsidies for the last 4-5 months. The financial help has actually been to encourage companies to run services at precovid levels and in some cases more frequent than pre-covid to aid social distancing.

According to an official press release on the Government's Gov.UK site the Covid-19 BSSG was announced on 3rd April 2020. The initial funding was provided: "to maintain services up to 50% of pre-Covid levels".

Since April, this grant/bailout has been renewed several times and is now reviewed on a monthly basis.

These are exceptional times but, I repeat, most if not all bus operators would have ceased trading without state (taxpayer) financial support.