Arriva North West - Bolton Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Bolton Depot

(07/05/2016 06:29)RedPanda Wrote:  Passengers don't have a choice of who operates their routes as that's down to Westminster.

How?

TFGM Headquaters at Piccadilly design the contracted service, put the route out to tender, they then receive bids for the service from local operators and the one who can put forward the best case wins and operates the service for the amount that they asked for. However, it is not always the cheapest service that gets awarded the contract, other factors include the use of greener buses (Cumfybus Bolton Services), Running several contracted routes that can interwork to lower the cost (MCT Ashton Services), or how flexible ticket options are - i.e A service being operaed by the same operator in the daytime as in the nighttime so that passengers can make full use of operator multi-journey passes (Arriva NW 68A - a Merseyside example).