Stagecoach Manchester

[Barney]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

(31/08/2020 21:43)Mayneway Wrote:  I’ve said this all along. They couldn’t organise a teddy bears picnic let alone manage a franchised network.
At the start of the pandemic while operators were reducing commercial services and they were furloughing staff they were very very reluctant to allow subsidised services to be reduced in anyway because legally they had to keep paying the operator to run (or not). Complete shambles.

I think that you identified the salient point: they were legally obliged to continue to pay operators to run subsidised services. If they hadn't they would have faced a legal challenge that they would have lost that would have cost a considerable amount of tax payers' money. Btw, how much do you think it has cost the tax payer (you?) to furlough Stagecoach staff for the last six months or doesn't that count?