Rotala - Prestonbus

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RE: Rotala - Prestonbus

(09/05/2019 20:30)robertclark125 Wrote:  The MD of Diamond NW said, in a news article which was linked onto the DBNW thread on this forum, that a new service which they had launched was being run on a use it or lose it basis. This is/was the same case here. After Transdev pulled out, Preston Bus decided to have a go. Sadly, like Transdev, Preston Bus can't afford to keep running the service.

I do sympathise with Preston Bus as I've no doubt folk will start going out along the route with petitions to try and save the service. All I can say is, if the petition along the route were to get 25'000 signatures, then why weren't those 25'000 people using the service?

Also worth noting that a large number of those critical of this decision, on their Facebook page, are from locations nowhere near the route.......

Transdev didn’t “pull out”.
LCC cancelled all their tendered local bus contracts in early 2016, and then tendered for a much reduced set of contracts, which included the Preston - Skipton route. Preston Bus surprisingly decided to run a commercial service on the route, so LCC did not need to award a contract for the route.