Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(11/11/2017 23:41)mtl97 Wrote:  Arriva are not as strong as they were, around 2007 they ran buses on nearly every route out of chester, Liverpool 401/x11, west kirby 421/422, runcorn 21/x30, northwich 82, winsford 230,x20, Crewe 84 & the wales routes including x94 to barmouth, since then arriva have abandoned routes to the wirral, halved frequency on runcorn & Crewe routes, only back on northwich route & now on db routes due to the collapse of gha, stagecoach only problem is land for buses to park on but that is being sorted out, if stagecoach end up on any arriva routes it will because arriva dont want it anymore, stagecoach have got what they want in chester anyway, park & rides, e port routes & cheshire oaks to themselves

Maybe that is the case but look at Townlynx T1. If that is what they do to competition running only hourly, imagine what it will be like if Stagecoach ran it much more frequent. Even in Widnes on the 110, they are trying to wipe out Link Network even though Link only run from Widnes - Warrington. If Stagecoach were to compete, I think 1, it would have been done by now and 2, they would do the whole route and flood. The reason they have so many tenders in Wales is to get their foot in the door but Arriva can't complain it is competition as they are tenders not commercial. IF they want to expand, it will be a task and a half for them. Hopefully they win the DBs. That will help them majorly around Handbridge and Saltney. Any whiff of Stagecoach competing not on tenders and Arriva will have them.