Avon Buses

[Barney]

RE: Avon Buses

(27/06/2017 11:41)WAITING FOR THE 437 Wrote:  Its a shame as they are a good local operator but they are losing customers left right and centre, when that happens it's hard to get the confidence back. Surely they could arrange a temporary provider for their tendered work

I really don't know how it can be claimed that "they are a good local operator" if Avon is consistently unable to provide bus services that are being funded by tax payers as, in any other situation, this would be considered fraud. Having waited for several of these services that failed to run I have very little sympathy with Avon and I'm sure that I am not alone.

Without having any inside knowledge, I suspect that it won't be long before Avon goes the way of so many other small independent operators in recent years. The heady days of bus deregulation are well behind us and I foresee only two operators providing bus services on Merseyside by the end of this decade.