Avon Buses

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RE: Avon Buses

(06/10/2018 20:34)Mayneway Wrote:  GHA inevitably failed because they chose to install a general manager with a Neich for promising big things with his tremendous public transport knowledge and basically making a real hash of things (won't use a stronger word!). I have no doubt that had he not been employed GHA in some guise might still be trading.

Sadly to a point the management of Avon have to take the blame also. I'm not suggesting Merseytravel discounted tickets haven't caused some issue but they foolishly registered commercial work and took on contracts without the resources in place to fulfil them and this will have hit them hard and I don't think they ever fully recovered. There was a level of retrenchment afterwards to try and recoup but it was sadly too little too late.

The only minor plus is that there is a major PSV driver shortage nationwide so there's no reason why all the drivers shouldn't walk straight into other jobs.

Avon did a couple of my local routes, 16/17/18/22/83A & most of the time they carried fresh air, 83A could busy Birkenhead-Arrowe Park or if it went before the 413/414, 16/17 was empty apart from the Schools, 18 carried fresh air most of the time, 22 was mostly busy Neston-Chester, rest of the route could be empty, but most of the time passengers would have be using ENCTS passes, & these were commercial routes something has to give in the end.

The Sandbrook estate now will have no daytime bus service until 7pm when the 38A starts.