Diamond Bus North West

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RE: Diamond Bus North West

(06/07/2019 15:26)johnluke Wrote:  I could virtually guarantee that ....its not an if..its a when the franchises come in stagecoach will drop all their manchester operations ..souter dont like being told what to do....he will be fighting on many fronts soon as many of the Scottish local councils are after starting new municipal bus companies now that the Scottish bill has changed

When franchising was proposed for Tyne & Wear it was an extreme and unintended application of Quality Bus Contracts - of which Vantage is more what was intended. Any franchising in Greater Manchester would be within the Buses Act 2017.

Anyway, I remember the report/rumour that, had T&W franchising been authorised, Stagecoach would have deregistered the whole network, made the staff redundant, redeployed or sold the vehicles, and sold off the garages for property development. This would have left Nexus with very little scope to award a Newcastle franchise to anyone.