Arriva put Prices up again
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RE: Arriva put Prices up again
(24/02/2015 16:44)Dentonian Wrote: Funnilly enough, my "Timeline" (if you pardon the pun - as an appropriate example), is almost the opposite of yours. In principle, I have always been dead against Deregulation - an attitude hardened by the fact that London (where the market IS strong enough for competition) was spared, and so too was Rail. However, it eased slightly once the cowboy "run where the orange bus goes, but just in front of it" operators began to fall by the way side. In many ways the current bus war is no different to earlier skirmishes, except that First do run something approximating what they have registered. The main point about the cowboys was they constantly ran "on the edge of the law" (at best), but escaped TC sanctions for years. They also showed a distinct lack of innovation, because ALL they did (east of the Rochdale Rd/Stockport Road axis) was copy GMB/GMN/GMS/First/Stagecoach. I think Merseyside is quite lucky in that there are still a few independants willing to try and run commercial services, in Manchester they have all but died commercially and seem to survive on picking up odd tenders and I find that really sad. I carnt really comment on regulation as I was all but a glint in my mothers eye ![]() Would we be in this situation now if GM Buses had been splitt in to 4 instead of 2 I wonder? |
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