Manchester Community Transport

[Mayneway]

RE: Manchester Community Transport

(15/04/2020 06:06)M60lad Wrote:  Regarding 391/392 nobody has got the tender yet, from what I've heard once all this is over and we're out of lockdown then Cheshire East/Transport Service Solutions will look at retendering the service.

The tender has gone out and been won by another operator as drivers currently working the 391/392 were told they had to TUPE over. CEC/TSS have reviewed passenger numbers over the last 3 weeks and decided to suspend the service but once it’s all over it will pass to the operator and will continue as normal.

I can completly understand why they have took the decision to suspend it as the contract has to be paid in full to the operator even if it’s running on a skeleton timetable, so CEC/TSS have thought it’s better to save money than to pay an operator NOT to run all the services there paying them to run.