Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

[Valandil]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

(28/02/2018 23:10)RedPanda Wrote:  I thought a QBP accepted each other’s tickets without question. Being charged a small fee per journey with one operator and not accepting their competitors tickets on the other.
All Arriva have done is retimed their daytime journeys to leave 15 minutes before and after Link’s. I can see what you mean about inviting a second bus to join Link’s operation on the 329 but I could really see a big drop in passenger usage per journey.

The only way I could see it work is if there was a reintroduction in contiuing to Daresbury. But who to operate it?

Feel free to disagree, but I think that's a really good gesture from Arriva.
Hopefully this will mean a stable situation and neither company will deviate.
They could have gone all predatory 'cat and mouse' instead and re-timed to run just ahead of Link Network - with little regulation, that's the 'quick buck' mindset that most operators would use.

Halton Transport have a Warrington - Daresbury peak-time service (62A) and many workers also use Arriva's X30 and walk from the nearest end of Daresbury village.