Greater Manchester Tenders

[Mayneway]

RE: Greater Manchester Tenders

(20/02/2016 09:47)Nicholas Wrote:  This seems to be another one of those "is that actually the case?" grey areas, as there are plenty of councils that require an operator who runs a tendered service to accept the tickets of the commercial operator on the same service (but obviously not the other way round).

Im pretty sure I read on another forum a while ago that either in West or South Yorkshire a group of evening and Sunday tenders were awarded too Arriva I think as they operated the mon-sat daytime services commercially and offered 'consistency' to passengers in regards to tickets etc.

I perfectly understand the transport act but to chop a service up in to several chunks and award them to different operators because it's easier and cheaper is ludicrous but as always I these situations the passenger is the last person that's considered.