Arriva North West - Bolton Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Bolton Depot

(13/06/2012 20:50)Nicholas Wrote:  There's a reason why the 360 and 362 are at Bolton, and that is they are money makers. Arriva obviously realise there is money to be made in Bolton, and by redeploying those routes there, and the 10 when that does move across, they are making the depot more profitable.

If they didn't do this, there would have been the situation where Arriva would be running three profit-less depots, and that could have led to all three closing or being sold off.

I'm not debating that at all. What I'm saying is that it's obviously going to be cheaper to move those routes, possibly on a temporary basis, out to another garage whilst land continues to be an issue at Bolton enabling them to finally close the Manchester depot. With expenditure therefore removed/reduced at Manchester, that's more money in the pot overall.

I'm not hugely familiar with the profitability and usage of the Manchester services but I'd imagine that even if the 360/362 were theoretically lost, these routes would make up for it at least somewhat?