Diamond Bus North West

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RE: Diamond Bus North West

(16/06/2020 18:47)iMarkeh Wrote:  Are we sure Diamond actually want to expand right now in Manchester? They took on the routes under emergency tenders and at the time they took them on, no one knew how quick or slow the lockdown and thus reduced services would go on for. Diamond jumped on an opportunity to keep buses out on the road and drivers in work rather than furlough. It also helped increase revenue to help sustain the business at a time when the commercial route revenue is down.

Chances are, with the retendering, Diamond will lose some of the routes and it will become more manageable for them. It's just dealing with it short term until the retendering is complete.

Forget the MCT emergency tenders.
Diamond successfully tendered to operate the 217 and at the time it was announced it was quoted they were very keen to pick up work in the Ashton/Oldham/Stockport areas.
One of my ex colleagues who’s now at Diamond reckons they are very keen to retain as much of the MCT work as possible but with 50 min dead runs to and from Bolton depot I would think there would be a reshuffle with more of Eccles work going up Bolton and Eccles running new work up this way.