Stagecoach MCSL - Gillmoss Depot

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RE: Stagecoach Merseyside - Gillmoss Depot

(01/10/2016 14:02)Dentonian Wrote:  Totally disagree! Getting embroilded in this bus war and the resultant whingeing about city centre congestion, whilst long standing suburban services go to rack and ruin is what needs to stop. This thread is 40 miles too far west to go into detail, but I got caught up in it yet again yesterday.

For once, I agree with Dentonian. In the long term, a (bus) war of attrition is destructive and costly, even for the winner. It's just on thirty years since competition was viewed as the way to go following deregulation and, whilst there have been some benefits, the primary objective - increase bus usage - has not been achieved. Rather, services and usage in urban and rural areas has, in many instances been destroyed.

Here on Merseyside, Stagecoach and Arriva recognise that peaceful co-existence under the new Bus Alliance agreement makes far more sense.