Diamond Bus North West

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RE: Diamond Bus North West

(17/01/2021 09:45)Mrboo Wrote:  now I could see DNW being happy for that as they could carry on with there core routes and has the new buses to go for Transport for Manchester work

I don't think this is what TfGM intends to do. My understanding that ALL bus routes will come under public control and put out to tender. DBNW and every other operator would not be allowed to keep running its most profitable routes. Rather it wants to go back to the way it was prior to deregulation in 1986, when it was not permissible for a private operator to register or run a bus service without the agreement of the local transport authority.

In the early 1980s, a trial was conducted in Hereford whereby private operators were allowed to register and run services and this became the template - with the exception of London and Northern Ireland - for the whole of the UK.

As they say, what goes around comes around and in a few years time we may well be back where we started.