Warrington's Own Buses

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RE: WBT Network Warrington

(02/12/2017 22:42)Bevan Price Wrote:  They need more than that - they need a lot of money. It is foolhardy to expand too much unless you have plenty of spare money. Just look at the number of small independent operators that have got into trouble, and ceased operations, because they tried to expand too far, too soon.

Either maintenance standard decline, or operations become unreliable, and they get an invite to the traffic commissioners, or they run out of money and cannot get finance to continue.

Just look at the peaceful bus war in Manchester between Stagecoach and First. It's pretty clear they are both loosing money with the flat fares along Oxford/Wilmslow road. Stagecoach gave in first and increased fares from £1 to £1.50 but within days First followed and increased theres to £1.50. It's an expensive business bus wars lol