Arriva North West - Bolton Depot

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - Bolton Depot
Arriva will be making more money out of the old Skem site renting it out now as they have no operational costs there and the routes which left are all running as normal from other depots with little to no dead mileage. It's win win for them and I'd say it's anything but thick. If they need to move the Manchester stuff out to other depots (which they seem in no massive rush to actually do) they have options such as moving routes like the 360/362 out of Bolton to garages such as St Helens.

They do everything they need to, to minimise their cost and increase their profit. Closing Skelmersdale will have reduced their operating costs massively especially considering they've had no actual loses with the routes which run equally well from their new garages. As opposed to having nowhere to go, I'd say Arriva actually have the ability to rather quickly get themselves into a situation whereby they've managed to close 2 operating centres (reducing the costs I talk about) yet maintain the core route networks in these areas, I see nothing but business sense there.