GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

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

(11/06/2016 14:09)Dentonian Wrote:  And don't forget the 200 is subsidised - four different Authorities - so presumably, they should be re-imbursed.

As regards the incident local to you, I'm at a loss as to who it might be because I believe one of the questions TFGM want the Government to clarify is the continued role of the TCs if Franchising goes ahead. This is presumably because they have been far too lenient over the behaviour of certain Operators - all of which have thankfully now gone out of business - over the last 30 years. I know what you are trying to say with the (quote) "5 minutes *in front of a duplicate* First service, but it does remind me of the argument that (100 year old commercial) bus services should not be allowed to compete with (two year old, heavily pubicly financed) Metrolink services.

The point I was trying to make was regardless of compition on a certain corridor dosent make it ok for any operator to simply disappear for a day and not run a particular service regardless of whether another operator runs every other 20 mins or not, and as you say it does seem like TCs are lenient probably because of the gap that would be left if they were stripped of thier licence and shut down!