GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

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RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

(24/09/2016 15:45)Dentonian Wrote:  There is nothing to stop Operators doing this, but TFGM would not accept them for stocks in Travelshops.

Altrincham interchange did used to have copies of GHA's own 88 leaflets in the travel centre as well as the green Cheshire East timetable for the 289.

Quote:In saying all that, as pointed out, GHA had very little operation in GM, and what they did run was mainly East Cheshire tenders, which apart from the 130, would be covered in either their own, or ECCC publicity. I can only assume that any money owed is for the 130 Guide - but I can't see that being much as I think they only triggered one change to the Bus Guide - and/or facility charges at Altrincham Interchange. The latter could include penalty payments if Interchange management had not been consulted or informed of changes to the 88 etc. Rightly or wrongly, it is the Operators' responsibility to negotiate slots at TFGM owned termini, even if the service is another Authority's contracted timetable.

With the 88 service GHA did add in the additional positional workings between Wilmslow and Altrincham when they were operating the services out of Macclesfield outstation but then when the outstation was closed they extended the positional moves to Knutsford so they did finish up adding in additional services above the contract requirement and modifying those services.

The 130 Sunday and BH service was originally a 2 year contract. At the end of the 2 year contract Cheshire East awarded the new contract (for a revised timetable) to D&G but GHA decided to continue running the services (to a further different timetable) and then apparently submitted a request to change the service to VOSA which included an error, so they had to submit a revision to change the timetable to correct the error! They did also add in Wilmslow-Macclesfield weekday and Saturday positional moves on the 130 route and then withdrew those once the Macclesfield outstation closed. So there would have been quite a few changes to the 130 over the years.

You'd hope with a service like the 200 where Cheshire East and TfGM were both providing a subsidy, that the operator wouldn't be getting a subsidy and then sent an invoice from either party for providing timetables, usage of bus stops etc.