Manchester Community Transport

[M60lad]

RE: Manchester Community Transport
Looking at the list I have a couple of questions:

1> There's still a number of services yet to be covered by an operator, is there still enough time for an operator to step in and run these services come April? (I know there's just enough a month until change date)

2> Looking at the routes operators have gained I wonder where vehicles are going to come from to operate their additional services? Especially looking at work Stotts have won

3> One thing I had heard is that apart from 408 First had got some of the MCT routes/tenders in Ashton is this right?

4> Will there be a reason why Arriva this time haven't bid to operate some of the remaining services? Surely they can easily operate say X5 & 18 especially considering they've operated 18 in the past.