Merseytravel - Sefton Bus Review

[motormayhem1]

RE: South Sefton Bus Review

(16/01/2017 17:12)Barney Wrote:  Another question to be asked is how many of these additional evening/Sunday services will be run by the current daytime operator? Arriva, the major operator in this area, currently run the 58, 300 and 310 and if these services are not run by Arriva, this could inconvenience people who currently buy Arriva weekly/monthly tickets. This situation already exists with the 56 which is operated by Arriva M-Sat daytime but HTL evenings/Sundays.

Which is exactly the same in st helens with the review there as :
Arriva operate the 30 , 33 , 38 on a daytime while htl operate the evenings and 38A all day sunday.
Hattons operate the 60 , 140 , 141 on a daytime while htl operate the evenings and sundays.
I personally think it suits merseytravel as its cheaper costs and more chance of reclaiming more revenue back as larger operators day and weekly tickets are not valid where as if one of the larger companies run them its higher costs and less revenue due to there day and weeklys being used.