GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

[knutstransport]

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

(28/05/2015 20:25)arrifirststage Wrote:  Does this mean that Shropshire will cancel the contract for the 436,it seems excessive to pay for something that Arriva are providing commercially.
Maybe an attempt to remove GHA from Shrewsbury and lessen the chances of GHA bidding for the Shrewsbury P & R ?

It's not just a case of whether the council decides, there's legislation in place to prevent public money being spent subsiding a service which duplicates a commercial service so Shropshire may have a legal duty to cancel the contract, then it'll be up to GHA to decide whether to either run a competing commercial service or not to run a service on that route.

GHA actually lost the Cheshire East contract for Sunday and Bank Holidays services between Macclesfield and Manchester to D&G Bus. However, instead of withdrawing the service GHA decided to run a reduced service commercially when meant Cheshire East annulled the contract they had awarded to D&G Bus.