GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

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RE: GHA Group (Bryn Melyn, Vale Travel + Others)

(27/09/2016 14:40)Salopbus Wrote:  Yet again heresay gets in the way of the truth. The contract for 27 was coming to a natural end and High Peak decided to continue operating the services commercially on a 90 minute headway, the Council did not ask High Peak to consider commercial operation. Had High Peak not registered the service commercially a tender would have been issued for an hourly service, however once High Peak relinqueshed the commercial operation funding for the hourly service was no longer available so a lesser service was put in place.

I was under the impression (from what my local paper reported) that Cheshire East asked operators to look at whether it would be viable to continue running routes when the contracts ended. I did say "when the High Peak contract came to an end" so did not in any way imply it the contract was cancelled. Of course, High Peak didn't have to register a commercial 27 service (as you implied) as they already had an active 27 registration so they just had to submit a request to update the registration for a reduced service.

You seem to know a lot about what conversations took place between TSS/Cheshire East and multiple operators. So either you must have worked for TSS/Cheshire East or you changed employer every few months. If not surely what you've heard is just as much hearsay as what myself or other posters hear?

And yet again you make an argument about something that isn't exactly the most relevant part of the post - it was the attempt to run a 90 minute commercial service that caused the drop in usage, whose ever idea that was.