Fairbrother's of Warrington

[Mayneway]

RE: Fairbrother's of Warrington

(11/09/2015 16:33)Lynx Wrote:  The article seems very exaggerated. A Ofsted report is linked which if read makes no mention of bus services being a issue, but this is the kind of misleading "click bait" journalism you can only expect from the Warrington Gaurdian. The head teacher simply uses the Ofsted report to back up his case and appears to be shifting the blame on to Fairbrothrers to cover his own backside. I don't think using Springfield will necessarily improve reliability, their just as likely to get stuck in a traffic jam or breakdown as Fairbrothers. I think to call safety into question as well is uncalled for, Fairbrothers might not have a nice new set of eco-friendly Optare Versas but to claim that safety is a issue is ridiculous.

The whole things smells very childish.
Mr Fairbrother should accept that the school wants a different operator to run the school services and move on. If the issue of school buses being late has been an issue for a while then surly as owner he should have been aware of it and done something about it, possibly running buses dead from depot to start of school service and vice versa at home time rather than interworking them with regular services, unless a shortage of buses/O discs is an issue?
The head teacher sounds just as daft though blaiming de-regulation for the issue arising lol.

Incidentally a similar thing happened in Manchester a few years back. First operated 2 or 3 commercial school services on a schools behalf and after the autumn term had them taken given to a local independant instead as the morning journeys were always unreliable due to interworking.