Fifteen years since the sale of MTL to Arriva

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RE: Fifteen years since the sale of MTL to Arriva

(25/02/2015 14:12)wirralbus Wrote:  Crosville didnt cease to exist it just downsized to the Wirral and Chester . Rock Ferry and chester the ever presents , with fortunes alternating between West Kirby and Heswall before both ceased to exist , eventually becoming a pub at Heswall and Housing at West Kirby.

I am not sure exactly when First took over the former Crosville operations (in the 1990s?), but when it did Crosville ceased to exist. Once downsizing has been adopted as the business plan, closure invariably follows and that has been the pattern in bus operations for the past 30 years. The only good thing to come out of the 1985 Act was it ensured that a private - as opposed to a state - national monopoly could not be achieved.