Arriva put Prices up again

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RE: Arriva put Prices up again

(24/02/2015 14:40)bolton bus basher Wrote:  One thing i notice is how their £10 Weekly that they are using to compete with Townlynx has remained the same....

Hopefully other companys take advantage of that

You make a good point.
Competition is as Dentionan says above just that... Competition, but it's ironic that where two or more bus companies compete (for example Stagecoach and First along student alley in Manchester), fares often stay lower and passengers get a much better deal.

But in the suberbs it just goes to prove that de-regulation has gone t#ts up. Don't get me wrong I'm all for de regulation and up till about 8-10 years ago it was working to a point (yes in areas there were bad aspects), but in my opinion the very government bodies such as the OFT and CMA, or whatever there calling themselves this month have failed, and as a result small ops after small ops have been swallowed up by the big boys resulting in huge areas or corridors being dominated by one large operator (just look at Stockport) who generally charge a higher fare, and the sad fact is they can charge what they want and people have no choice but to pay it.