Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

(28/02/2018 23:28)Valandil Wrote:  Feel free to disagree, but I think that's a really good gesture from Arriva.
Hopefully this will mean a stable situation and neither company will deviate.
They could have gone all predatory 'cat and mouse' instead and re-timed to run just ahead of Link Network - with little regulation, that's the 'quick buck' mindset that most operators would use.

Halton Transport have a Warrington - Daresbury peak-time service (62A) and many workers also use Arriva's X30 and walk from the nearest end of Daresbury village.

Was Daresbury even that busy?

I think it is a good gesture but independants rely on the 'passing trade'. Obviously Arriva weren't getting that as Link run just in front. Cat and mouse ends badly as I am sure Arriva must know from other battles faced elsewhere. If they start playing that game, it ends up in either lots of lost revenue for both companies or it ends with a QBP. Neither company wants that. Arriva have lost enough money in Merseyside with the strikes, they need to make up as much money as they can to make up the depot profits.