List of operators who've signed up to the £2 fare cap (to become £3 in 2025)

[iMarkeh]

RE: List of operators who've signed up to the £2 fare cap

(03/01/2023 18:10)dounowhoiam Wrote:  It is a bit of strange one as the Arriva part tendered services are showing up as part of the scheme (such as the 19, 247 and 263) even though they are part of the GM £2 fare limit:


...yet Stagecoach Manchester have only done it for services that go outside of the GM border:


Does that indicate that the Government scheme has a greater return rate for each journey made in comparison to TfGM, but is extra workload that Arriva see's it worthwhile whereas Stagecoach doesn't?

I think the government list is a bit of a mess. There's all sorts of missing details in there and I believe a number of additional firms are included whom the government hasn't put on the list. Firms which run 100% funded services are to be paid via another system somehow via the tendering authorities. Because these firms aren't getting direct funding though from the government to the bus operator, they aren't on the list. The list has been a mess since it was first introduced.