Manchester Community Transport

[Mayneway]

RE: Manchester Community Transport

(12/05/2020 11:31)knutstransport Wrote:  Mentioned in earlier post that anyone who needed it to make an essential journey was asked to phone TSS, with the new operator (High Peak?) to start running the service once restrictions get lifted. I don't know if the change in government advice will mean it'll restart soon.

Apparently High Peak won the tender originally but TSS/CEC decided to drop it completely (rather than paying HP to either run a reduced service or nothing at all) until things were clearer with the pandemic. Now it seems a completely different operator will be running it on a different arrangement with CEC/TSS - I assume it’s part tendered part commercial rather than all tendered. A small group of my colleagues from MCT spent about 3 days last month learning the 391/392 last month and the operator was very keen to get it up and running but CEC/TSS are insisting that DBS checks are done on the drivers before they can start operating