Arriva North West - Bolton Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Bolton Depot

(07/05/2016 10:12)Raawwwrrr! Wrote:  How?

TFGM Headquaters at Piccadilly design the contracted service, put the route out to tender, they then receive bids for the service from local operators and the one who can put forward the best case wins and operates the service for the amount that they asked for. However, it is not always the cheapest service that gets awarded the contract, other factors include the use of greener buses (Cumfybus Bolton Services), Running several contracted routes that can interwork to lower the cost (MCT Ashton Services), or how flexible ticket options are - i.e A service being operaed by the same operator in the daytime as in the nighttime so that passengers can make full use of operator multi-journey passes (Arriva NW 68A - a Merseyside example).

At the time I was meaning the competition between services. I see where I am confusing you. I also put 'passengers don't have choice who operates their routes. Thats down to Westminster.' I meant Westminster controls who operates where with the competition commission and local councils and PTE's decide who operates routes.
Again I didn't include any of Wigan's outbound routes, just Leigh outbound services.

There are two outbound services in the evening Monday to Saturday in Leigh. Both of which are to Wigan numbered 593 and 658. It was reported that a sapphire pulsar operated a service. Since realising I hadn't included Wigan services, I have had a look at the 362 and 593 and compared timetables. They don't match up. I also compared the 593 and 658 and they do work out to interlink with each other.
I will also say that there are six routes out of Wigan. At the time I just had Leigh services in my head operated by Arriva.