[Archive] Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(18/01/2013 23:49)CX54 DKD Wrote:  As in they have to stump up some money to Merseytravel for the variation? I didn't quite get the wording.

Regardless, if Arriva think they can recoup that cost and put an end to the competition from an independent treading upon them, I doubt they'd see it as failing!

I meant that Merseytravel have to pay Impera more money if the contract has to vary due to the law that a contract service cannot operate alongside a commercial service.

I wasn't talking about Arriva's side of the story, really - less running by Impera and an extra sum of money would increase their profit-margin slightly and I understand that the 164/165 have very low patronage anyway...! Arriva may benefit because it's an extra service through the tunnel to Liverpool - nearly-always somebody waiting in Birkenhead/Liverpool for a bus through the tunnel, from what I see!