Euro 6 engines only allowed in Greater Manchester from next May

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RE: Euro 6 engines only allowed in Greater Manchester from next May
Its all fairly easy to sort out on the bus front, especially with the euro 6 retrofit program going on funded by tfgm, but its the coach industry that'll struggle. People like rothwells in Heywood and elite over cheadle have a fairly old fleets and its doubtful they could find the several hundred thousand pounds to upgrade their fleets. The new healings/Roberts travel have only been running a short time and there's no way his reserves will be good enough to fund a euro 6 coach yet.
And I've still heard silence about government funding to upgrade vehicles, but how does £5000 help when you're looking at a £100,000 bill?
There's also the reduction in tourists and visitors when outside coach companies can't pass the extra £100 a day onto passengers.
Not forgetting haulage firms like Barretts in Oldham that are still running their ultra reliable ERFs and doubtful they can upgrade their whole fleet too

Its all very short sighted and political