Arriva North West bus strike

[motormayhem1]

RE: Potential Arriva North West bus strike

(20/07/2022 10:50)St Helens Rider Wrote:  It's also interesting how Go North West when they had their industrial relations issues managed to sub-contract routes out to other operators but Arriva can't do that. Even if it were just a limited service on a route with no alternative service, it would be useful. As a result, there are vast areas now without any public transport. Oh for the days when there were plenty of competing operators who would take up the slack at times like this.

When go northwest went on strike it was only one depot where as arriva is a full operating area with larger network to cover.
Operators are struggling to cover there own networks due to shortage of staff and I don't think coach operators can cover it either , as they have there own work to cover with the summer trips.