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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - RedPanda - 26/08/2017 15:53
Could we not upgrade the North West/Wales network and not just one depot? Other areas are just as important. Not just reliability but environmental too.
RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - T42 PVM - 26/08/2017 15:56
Business sense is you give Buses to the areas that make the most money..
RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - 1466 - 27/08/2017 12:58
(26/08/2017 15:56)T42 PVM Wrote: Business sense is you give Buses to the areas that make the most money..
No actually it makes no business sense at all to leave less profitable areas to wither on the vine
RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - SK15 GZG - 27/08/2017 13:43
(27/08/2017 12:58)1466 Wrote: No actually it makes no business sense at all to leave less profitable areas to wither on the vine
New vehicles have to be able to pay for themselves. That's why the more profitable depots like Speke and Green Lane will get new stock on a more regular basis
RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - SSS871 - 01/09/2017 14:30
2803 on the 403 this afternoon.
RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - wirralbus - 02/09/2017 14:15
Oh a new liveried Pulsar on the 219 this morning , the end of an era as the former Merseybus 18 /18a , Arriva 418/9 Mill Park services cease after today , lets see what happens in the review of the review.
Merseytravel seem to think we in South Wirral don't deserve a bus to Arrowe Park Hospital any more ?
RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - CKC 312L - 02/09/2017 21:03
It will need a bus to Arrowe Park even more now that the walk-in centre is up for closure and it is being recommended that people from the Eastham/Bromborough area using the walk in centre as Arrowe Park Good thinking just as the bus service gets axed the health authrity want to close the walk-in centre
RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - Barney - 02/09/2017 21:36
(02/09/2017 21:03)CKC 312L Wrote: It will need a bus to Arrowe Park even more now that the walk-in centre is up for closure and it is being recommended that people from the Eastham/Bromborough area using the walk in centre as Arrowe Park Good thinking just as the bus service gets axed the health authrity want to close the walk-in centre
As annoying as it might sound, the reality is that in a free market economy the primary and sole focus of any privately owned bus company in this country is to make a profit for its shareholders. Prior to bus deregulation buses were called PSV's (Passenger SERVICE Vehicles) but now they are PCV's (Passenger CARRYING Vehicles). It's been over 30 years since buses were a public service and the fact that poor, sick people can't afford to get to a hospital is not the concern of Messrs Arriva, Avon and Stagecoach. Harsh but true.
RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - Olympian2100 - 02/09/2017 22:08
(02/09/2017 21:36)Barney Wrote: As annoying as it might sound, the reality is that in a free market economy the primary and sole focus of any privately owned bus company in this country is to make a profit for its shareholders. Prior to bus deregulation buses were called PSV's (Passenger SERVICE Vehicles) but now they are PCV's (Passenger CARRYING Vehicles). It's been over 30 years since buses were a public service and the fact that poor, sick people can't afford to get to a hospital is not the concern of Messrs Arriva, Avon and Stagecoach. Harsh but true.
Arriva are not privately owned bis company, as they are ultimately owned by the German Government via DB.
RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot - Barney - 03/09/2017 09:41
(02/09/2017 22:08)Olympian2100 Wrote: Arriva are not privately owned bis company, as they are ultimately owned by the German Government via DB.
I am fully aware of that and the fact that it is (German) state-owned doesn't change that fact that Arriva is not publicly owned. It is driven by the profit motive in order to support GERMAN public transport not British. Arriva cannot and will not run an unprofitable bus route to provide a service for the sick, elderly and the poor.