Diamond Bus North West

[Mayneway]

RE: South Lancs Travel

(04/03/2015 08:00)motormayhem1 Wrote:  Arriva are small time in manchester and dont look to bothered about manchester area or else they would of been determined to buy into the market but have sat back and let first and stagecoach take that area as if they wanted to be in manchester they could of bought the likes of finglands,jpt,bluebird and slt before others took over but never.
Stagecoach and first will be the ones that will be looking at them as if rotala want to get into manchester then they may look at routes from wigan/bolton and leigh into manchester city centre etc which arriva don't have.

I only really follow what's going on buses wise in the North West, but do Rotala compete much with Travel West Midlands or do they operate along side each other similar to how First and Stagecoach used to be in Manchester.
I've always been impressed with what Rotala have done with Preston Bus, but it's obvious they don't have the funds to invest in a younger fleet straight away but the fleet looks very modern.