Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

(14/10/2021 14:47)Nwales Bus Wrote:  Do we know if Arriva has handed back the contracts early or was it the end of the tender as most of their withdrawn routes were supported by the council

That's not correct. The only Cheshire East contracted services around Macclesfield are 19 (High Peak), 88 & 130 (D&G Bus) and 391/392 (Go Goodwins.) All Arriva get from Cheshire East on their Macc routes is reimbursement for bus passes. There were some evening contracted services on some of those routes in the past but funding for those was axed a couple of years ago.

I'm pretty sure D&G have most, if not all, of the contracted work around Crewe. Arriva don't usually bid low for contracted work meaning they lost a lot of it when GHA and D&G started bidding for Cheshire East contracts.