GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

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

(22/07/2016 12:17)Salopbus Wrote:  That would be very interesting as there was no agreement between Cheshire East and GHA so they must have made a separate arrangement with Waters, the Councillor may be getting mixed up with the six figure sum paid in subsidy for operating the service which would certainly have been shared with Cllrs in a Cabinet paper.

The Councillor in question is not a Conservative so isn't one of the ones involved in the Lyme Green fiasco and isn't Mike Jones who had his own fiasco either.

I was wondering whether the ITT for the contract included an option for funding improvements to make public transport more attractive (as a result of the Waters funding) and GHA chose new buses opposed to there being a requirement for new buses. The additional buses being routed via Waters and via the railway station in Wilmslow alone suggests Waters had an influence in the enhanced service. While GHA's publicity for the GHA Gold service focused on connections with Metrolink at Altrincham for onward journeys to Manchester, which is only really relevant for a small part of the route.

There certainly wasn't the same type of agreement that used to be place on the 27 route where there were council owned Wright Cadets and AstraZeneca provided funding for the route.