GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

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

(27/05/2016 19:57)Depotosw Wrote:  There appears to be some interesting comments on social media that ARRIVA Shrewsbury are to continue some if not all of the route lost on tender i.e. the 21, 23 & 26? GHA have since removed all reference to these from their previous big write up on the news page the GHA website and only mention the 511 now. Oddly the Shropshire timetables on the website have them listing the 21. Anyone know what is going on with it all?

Maybe Arriva have decided to run the routes commercially after losing the contract - like GHA did with the 130 which I mentioned in my previous post? A subsided service can't compete with a commercial one.

Alternatively maybe GHA haven't required the resources to run the extra services, which is reportedly why two Cheshire East contracts they won were cancelled and awarded to Arriva and D&G instead.